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Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 March 1955Vol. XXV, No. 8

French High Commissioner in New Hebrides

p. 130 · Read in the full issue

The High Commissioner for France in the Pacific, M. Rene Hoffmeyer, proceeded from his headquarters in Noumea, NC, on an official visit to the New Hebrides, in February, and called at most of the principal stations. In this photograph (by Fung Kuei) he is seen in a Fila Island

Tillage, where the natives present*; special display of dancing in his hoc Those in the group, left to right: Grs- Kalsakau (the village chief), M. i M. Marcel Agostini (French Resg Commissioner) and the High Conn sioner.