A FRENCH COLONY.
NEW CALEDONIA. SEPARATION PETITION "A JOKE.". .GOVERNOR NOT ALARMED. (By Telegraph-Press Association-OopyHehU •» Sydney, September 21. M. J. Richard, Governor of Now Caledonia, is now in. Sydney, en route to France. In the courSo' of an interview, JI. Richard said that many statements ■ respecting tlie condition of Now Caledonia were literary exaggerations; Ho.admitted that there had beeii an amount of poverty,. but the crisis was passing away. , . . -.'.. ■. , The cause of v the depression, the Governor stated, was duo to the cessation-of trans[portation. France alone, ••without drawing on colonial sources, had spent £5,400,000 sterling on this department; and the Btoppage naturally affected business. '. '' Referring to the ■ petition for separation of the colony from-lfranee, M. Richard said he looked upon it: as a joke. He declared that the country was 'one of the richest countries in the world; • ;■■' • .
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Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 618, 22 September 1909, Page 7
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138A FRENCH COLONY. Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 618, 22 September 1909, Page 7
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