[?] Caledonia Elects
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[?]Ey Are Paid, Too
[?] Caledonia Elects [?]ew Cabinet
WESTERN SAMOA is not the only ' Pacific territory to have a paid legislature after all {PIM, tober, p. 21). Members of New ledonia’s eight-man Cabinet will paid £420; and Members of the w Assembly £329. We presume that ;se amounts are per annum. Our •respondent said per month, but s is probably a slip of the type iter. If it is per month, then a of people will be deciding that ;y are in the wrong line of busi es. tfew Caledonia’s new Assembly rritoriale met late October for the ;t time to elect its Cabinet, rhis Cabinet, composed of eight misters’” takes the name of anseil de Gouvernement”. The ht members are all members of Maurice Lenormand’s party hich won the recent general ctions).
'our of them are members of the vly elected Assembly Territoriale i four of them are from the gen -1 public. There are six Europeans i two New Caledonian natives, lowing the election of the Cabinet, mbers of the assembly were mimous in voting a public holi r with full pay to all in New edonia to mark the establishment this new era in local government.