NC'S Nickel Industry Not
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From Our Noumea Correspondent NOUMEA commentators have pointed out that when there is so much talk about safeguard ing the French nickel industry in New Caledonia to enable it to sur vive on the world market, it is in teresting to note how far the French-registered Societe Nickel is strictly French.
Its vice-president is M. Dewez, of the Societe Generale de Belgique, which controls nearly all mining activity in the Belgian Congo.
On the board is M. Pierari, of the Miraboud group, which indicates that the Swiss bankers are interested in the nickel company.
And then the company is con trolled by the Rothschild Bank.
One way and another, it is far from being an all-French set-up. t A New Testament in the Hula language, spoken by about 3,000 people in the Hood Peninsula of Papua, has been published by the British and Foreign Bible Society in an edition of 2,000 copies. The translation—by Mrs. L. Short, of the London Missionary Society—was difficult because the Hula language has no abstract nouns, no relative pronouns and no passive voice.