New Caledonia Oil Hunt
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May Be Ended
(From Our Own Correspondent) WHETHER or not the search for oil in New Caledonia has been abandoned could not be ascertained at Noumea in May.
The geologist in charge of the oil-seeking unit (M. Pomeyrol) has returned to Paris.
The gear at Gouraou has been dismantled and will probably be put to other drilling work —but not oil-seeking.
U Mr. Harry Owens, American band leader and song-writer, spent four days in Fiji in May making films for television. He was on his way back to the United States from Tahiti.