New Caledonia Shows
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Prosperity
IF automobiles and tourists are signs of wealth, New Caledonia is in a happy position.
The liner Caledonien recently brought in 70, and three vessels which called a little earlier brought 150. There are now more than 8,000 vehicles registered in New Caledonia.
Twenty-nine tourists from New Caledonia, in two groups, visited Australia in February. The tour was organised by French Pacific Tours, of Noumea. It was of 14 days’ duration and the cost per head, everything found, was -23,000 francs (£161).
Australia has been popular with New Caledonians and air bookings so far this year constitute a record.
Planes and ships to Sydney are booked out for weeks ahead. fl Miss Lois Connerton, a Presby terian Church missionary, returned to Australia in February for deputa tion work, after 2 h years in the New Hebrides. She will return to the New Hebrides in April. t The Rev. C L. Williams, who will become Queensland secretary of Methodist Overseas Mission on April 1, spent 15 years as a Methodist missionary in the Central Pacific. He went to Samoa first in 1940.