Hard to hold down two jobs

For Monsieur Bruno Gain, it was a difficult time. For a start he had difficulty in recalling the name of the Tahiti newspaper for which he worked.

That was understandable. Holding down two jobs is hard at the best of times. Harder still, M. Gain’s other job, as first secretary at the French embassy in Canberra, was a long way from Suva.

But it’s not as though his employer would

disapprove. Indeed, M Gain was at the forum to report except that his readers might be a select group in the Quai d’Orsay anxious for an assessment of what could prove to be a serious setback for French diplomacy.

For that is only how any failure to block New Caledonia’s reinscription on the UN decol onisation list could be viewed.

Denis Reinhardt