Grand-daughter of James Paddon, dies
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James Paddon, dies in Noumea
Miss Fernande Leriche, grand daughter of James Paddon, New Caledonia’s first colonist, died in Noumea in mid-August at the age of 83.
Paddon, an Englishman, established a sandalwooding station on Inyeuc Islet, off Aneityeum, New Hebrides, in the 1840’s, and set up a trading station on lie Nou, near the present town of Noumea, several years before France took pos session of New Caledonia in 1853.
Miss Leriche, who was a mine of information on the early days of New Caledonia, taught at Noumea’s Ecole Suzanne Russier for more than 40 years.