Pioneers Honor
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New Caledonia
ENGLISH pioneers of Caledonia received belates; cognition when the Nol Town Council gave names to s<a streets in the suburbs.
Those honoured were Pas* Higginson and Tindale. Padoi thought to have been the first d man to settle in New Calee The French found him well « lished when they arrived to Noumea. They bartered the of Nouville, where Paddon M trading station, to build the pq of He Nou.
Higginson was a romantic, . ing financial figure in the j nickel-boom days; and Tindall the man who set up the firsta works in New Caledonia.