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North Africans Are
To New Caledonia
Thousands of letters—most of them from North Africans— asking about the possibility of settlement in New Caledonia have been arriving at Noumea, reported PlM’s Noumea correspondent in late October.
A single Air France plane brought 2,000 such letters.
Cause of the excitement was an article in the Paris newspaper he Figaro, which stated that workers of all kinds were needed in New Caledonia, and gave the Labour In spector’s office at Noumea as the place to which applications were to be addressed.
Soon after the appearance of this statement the avalanche started to descend on Noumea, an early air mail bringing some 1,200 applica tions. Most of these came from the politically stormy regions of Morocco, Tunisia and Algeria.
The New Caledonian authorities have taken steps to correct the mis leading character of the published article.
This development has come on top of the recent controversies over rumoured proposals to transfer
20,000 troops from Indo-China to New Caledonia and to resettle thousands of displaced Eurasians in the Pacific Colony. t Mr. Basil Brown, who was a primary school teacher in Rarotonga some years ago, has recently been appointed inspector of schools in
the Gilbert and Ellice Is] Colony. t TEAL recently disposed o last idle Solent flying-boat.J will be broken up for scrs: Auckland. Only the two S€ on the Coral Route Services remain.