New Hebrides Wants Some Action

Calling for a new deal for New Hebrideans, Mr George Kalkoa told members of the Advisory Council at its Budget session that he was pes simistic about the condominium’s future prosperity. He wanted a new deal and an end to what he called “exploitation”. The expertise of the United Nations technical service should be enlisted to help the group towards further prosperity.

The British Resident Commissioner, Mr du Boulay, replying to a question by Mr Delacroix about elections in 1974, said electoral reform was being discussed. He had attended such a discussion in London. But a meeting

which was to have been held between Britain and France in November on the subject had been unavoidably postponed. The council would be kept informed of further develop ments.

Archdeacon Rawcliffe said the two metropolitan governments should “get a move on” so that some progress could be made on electoral pro cedures, and in having representation for the New Hebrides people in the council.

Mr du Boulay said he could con firm, from his own experience, that the metropolitan governments were aware of the need for urgency.