Ernest's Hamburg
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Went Along, Too
From Fred Dunn in Noumea As much a part of the Noumea townscape as the cathedral, Ernest Baoue is posssessed of an Old World courtliness that would set him apart in any community.
Tastefully dressed in black and often wearing an elegant homburg, he looks like some superior civil servant or even the United Nations representa tive of some latter-day nation.
For 25 years, Ernest chauf fered, nay, escorted the sisters of the Little Sisters of the Poor on their many daily rounds of Noumea.
Now, the inconveniences of age and the craziness of modern Noumean traffic have driven him into retirement, and Ernest, originally from a North New Caledonian tribe, has ceded the wheel to a younger man.
As an appreciation of his long service, the Mother Provincial of the Little Sisters recently took Ernest to Sydney for a visit.
It is Ernest’s first trip to Australia, and for the next month or two he will stay at the Little Sisters’ homes in Randwick and Drummoyne.
Ernest has taken his hom burg with him.
Ernest Baoue.