THE STATE OF NEW CALEDONIA.
VIEWS OF TH3 • O OVEUNOB. DEPBESSION PASSING AWA.Y. - P#ess Association.— Copxbiqht. (Beceived 10 5 a.m.) ' SYDNEY. Tuesday. Mone Richard, Governor of New Caledonia, is here en route to France. In the course of an interview he said that many statements respecting the condition of JNew Caledonia were literary exaggerations. He admitted that there ba<U>een some poverty, but the crisis was passing away. The cause of the depression was due to the. cessation, of the- transportation, of - the, jCriminals alone. France, without drawing 1 " on colonial had spent ££400,000 on this- department, and the stoppage naturally affected business Referring to the petition for separation from Wee,, Mons. Bichard looked noon it as- a joke, and declares that Uie colony is one of the richest countries in the world. ' „ '
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLIII, Issue XLIII, 21 September 1909, Page 3
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