OVERWHELAIING VOTE
TAHITI STANDS WITH FREE FRANCE. NEW ZEALAND PREMIER ADVISED. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day. The Prime Minister, Mr Fraser, stated last night that he had received advice from Papeete that as the result of a plebiscite held in Tahiti, Moorea and the Paumotus, 5564 votes have been cast in favour of General De Gaulle as against 18 for the Petain Government.
It is reported that the Governor of French Oceania has been deposed and that the administration has been assumed by a provisional Government composed of three members of the Privy Council who are awaiting the nomination of a new Governor by General De Gaulle. Mr Fraser also said that he had sent a telegram to Tahiti expressing on behalf of the New Zealand Government its great satisfaction at the support which French Oceania was now according to its cause of Free France under General de Gaulle’s leadership and pleasure at this further evidence of its ■ renewed solidarity of Free Frenchmen throughout the world with the people of the British Commonwealth of Nations.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 4 September 1940, Page 4
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