Reward For Diver

The French Government has decided to pay a reward of 160,000 New Hebrides francs (about £,4800) to Vila skindiver Reece Discombe for his dis covery of the wreck of La Perouse’s flagship “Boussole” and for his work in recovering relics of La Perouse’s other ship “Astrolabe” at Vanikoro over the last few years.

The reward is being paid on the recommendation of the French Resident Commissioner in the New Hebrides, Mr. Mau rice Delauney, and the chief of the French Navy’s historical sec tion, Commandant de Brassard.

Mr. Discombe, a New Zea lander, found the wreck of the “Boussole” during a private visit to Vanikoro in June, 1962.