THE NEW HEBRIDES.
STATEMENT BY DR FITCHETT.
ADELAIDE, June 17. Dr Fitchett (Solicitor-general for New Zealand), interviewed regarding the meetings of the Anglo-French New Hebrides Committee, 6aid that the machinery for the future government of the islands had been put into satisfactory working order. The meetings were merely to arrange the salaries and tenure of office of the judges pf the joint court, and generally as to the conduct of its business. He added that no little importance attached to the step taken by t'lie Mother Country in connection with the nomination of the committee, it being, the first time on record the Home Government had recognised the right of a self-governing dependency to have a say in the proceedings by the nomination of • British representative.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2779, 19 June 1907, Page 27
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126THE NEW HEBRIDES. Otago Witness, Issue 2779, 19 June 1907, Page 27
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