"Not Guilty"

Madame Ollier Is

From Our Noumea Correspondent IT Is reported from Paris that Madame Ollier has been acquitted of the charges that led to her deportation to France last year.

Madame Ollier was a member of the French Consular Service, stationed at Canberra. In evidence before the Australian Royal Com mission into espionage, Petrov said that he had met Madame Ollier on several occasions with the purpose of getting security information from her.

She was subsequently sent to France under guard, where she was detained for six months on a charge of plotting against the security of the State. She was released—but charged again, this time with fail

ing to report to her superiors that Petrov was a spy.

An Army Tribunal in Paris has now acknowledged the weakness of the charge and Madame Ollier has been released. t At Supreme Court sittings in Wau, New Guinea, in November, Kevin Edward Cronow was found guilty of having gold in his possession “at some time”, it being the property of Bulolo Gold Dredging Limited. Mr. Justice Kelly placed Cronow on a 560 good behavour bond for 12 months. ■ Mr. C. Wager, formerly a well known resident of Fiji, and now re tired and living in Sydney, has been in poor health lately—more particularly in relation to his eye sight. He has been receiving special treatment for cataract trouble, and his friends expect that he soon will be restored to normal health.

Passengers bound for New Guinea in November per A-NG Line's "Sinkiang" were, left to right: Mr. R. W. Bettany (right), who re-joining the staff of Colyer Watson & Co., Rabaul, was farewelled in Sydney by Mr. J. H. Macrean. Dr. Eric Nespor, of Papua-New Gui[?] Public Health Dept., who returned after furlough. With him here is Dr. E. Milch, the ship's surgeon. Miss Marjorie Ladd, who was join the teaching staff of the Methodist Mission School at Kiriwina, E. Papua, was farewelled by her mother, Mrs. H. H. Ladd of Melbou[?]