Pacific Islands Monthly
The news magazine of the South Pacific · since 1930
Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 January 1974Vol. 45, No. 1

Governor departs

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Governor Louis Verger, High Commissioner for France in the Pacific, left Noumea on Decem ber 1 at the end of a four-year term in New Caledonia. Mr Verger has been nominated as presiding Prefect in the Provence- Cote d’Azur region of southern France.

One of the governor’s last acts, on the eve of his departure, was to invite the local population to join him in a wreath-laying cere mony. By this patriotic gesture, marking Caledonian sacrifices for France in two world wars, the French governor reminded the islanders of their attachment to la metropole.

Mr Jean-Gabriel Eriau, at pre sent the Prefect of Upper Nor mandy, has been nominated by Paris as Mr Verger’s successor.

Born in 1914, Mr Eriau is mar ried and has two children.

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