BOOM IN NOUMEA
DEMAND FOR WAR MATERIALS
Noumea, the capital of French New Caledonia, according to Mr. J. S. Tingey, of. Feilding, who has just returned from a visit to the Pacific Islands, is enjoying something like a boom owing to a demand for those of the island's raw materials needed for war purposes—the rare minerals such as nickel, chrome ore, etc. Quite a big business was being done in these particular minerals, he remarked in an interview with the "Manawatu Times," and the result was that the town was prospering. The population was made up of a mixture of Polynesians, French, Chinese, as well as some of the original Cauaque's —in all, a very polyglot population.
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Evening Post, Volume CXVIII, Issue 20, 24 July 1934, Page 14
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117BOOM IN NOUMEA Evening Post, Volume CXVIII, Issue 20, 24 July 1934, Page 14
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