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Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 December 1955Vol. XXVI, No.5

[?]overnor Sees Bright

p. 157 · Read in the full issue

[?]ture or N. Cal. Minerals

From Our Noumea Correspondent

IHE new session of the New I Caledonian Assembly was opened in November, h his opening address, the Gov lor of the Colony, M. Rene ffherr, stressed the bright future it was apparent for New ledonia’s minerals. le said that the nickel smelters re breaking new records and that ian was buying increasing ounts of nickel ore. Chrome had erged from its recent doldrums; ckpiles at the mines were being posed of and new orders were ning in. ?he Governor spoke also of the stralian BHP’s contract to take ,000 tons of iron ore per annum. said that having recently in cted BHP installations at Port nbla he could appreciate how the stralian market would stimulate iduction in New Caledonia.

m Administration boarding-school

native girls opened in Rabaul, , in late November.