NEW HEBRIDES

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 290, 1 September 1920, Page 7

NEW HEBRIDES

CONDOMINIUM UNSATISFACTORY

ASSOCIATION OF FRANCE AND AUSTRALIA SUGGESTED

By Telegraph-Press Association-Copyright Paris, August 30. "The Temps," in an article on tho New Hebrides, admits that the "condominium" regime works badly, and suggests an exchange for the linking up of the /New Hebrides with the French possessions in the Pacific. France should pledge herself to a system of economic ra;?cciation and naval association with Australasia, and assure Australasians that commercial liberty would be respected. and no Asiatic immigration tolerated. Th 6 article concludes: "The smarting sore of the condominium will disappear only if England is prepared for' a rejuvenation of the Franco-British Alliance outside of Europe."—Renter. ["The Now Hebrides, in accordance with an Anglo-Frenoli convention made in 1906, are controlled jointly by British and French officials. The agreement guarantees the interests of French, British. and native residents respectively, fixes the conditions of land tenure, and provides for the regulation of the recruitment of native labour. Britain is represented by a Resident Commissioner who reports to the High Commissioner for the Western Pacific; and the French Government also has a Resident Commissioner. There are French and English Courts of Law, and also a "mixed Court," the presiding Judge of which is neither French nor English. In 191-4 an Anglo-French Conference was appointed to devise remedies .for the recognised defects of the dual government or "condominium"!