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Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 April 1959Vol. XXIX, No. 9

Deputation

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To Paris

Two native members of the New Caledonian Assembly flew from Noumea to Paris on March 28, to join Mr. Lenormand in a deputation to the French Gov ernment.

They will seek to see President de Gaulle, and protest about the “whittling down of powers” m New Caledonia since the refer endum, and to “remind him of his promise that those colonies which voted Yes would retain their status ”

Expenses of the delegation are being met by su PVorters of Lenormand’s Union Caledonien party.