Nouméa
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Sep 14, 2026
Aaron BennettNARRATOR
The enemy's 8th Fleet, 11th Air Fleet, and 1st, 7th, 8th, and 14th Naval Base Forces also were on New Britain.
Aaron BennettNARRATOR
Beginning on 5 August 1942, Japanese signal intelligence units began to pick up transmissions between Noumea on Caledonia and Melbourne, Australia.
Aaron BennettNARRATOR
Enemy analysts concluded that Vice Admiral Richard L. Gormley, commanding the South Pacific area, ComSopac, was signaling a British or Australian force in preparation for an offensive in the Solomons or at New Guinea.
Aaron BennettNARRATOR
The warnings were passed to Japanese headquarters at Rabaul and Truk, but were ignored.
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Aaron BennettNARRATOR
Admiral Nimitz had announced Halsey's appointment on 18 October and the news was welcome in Navy and Marine ranks throughout the Pacific.
Aaron BennettNARRATOR
Halsey's deserved reputation for elan and aggressiveness promised renewed attention to the situation on Guadalcanal.
Aaron BennettNARRATOR
On the 22nd, Holcomb and Vandergriff flew to Noumea to meet with Halsey and to receive and give a round of briefings on the Allied situation.
Aaron BennettNARRATOR
After Vandergriff had described his position, he argued strongly against the diversion of reinforcements intended for Cactus to any other South Pacific venue, a sometime factor of Admiral Turner's strategic vision.
ScoopHOST
Yeah?
Jade CraigHOST
Noumea and Stienkamp, right? Both are loose ends.
Jade CraigHOST
And I think the referee said, Penalty, Stienka walking around, and Lyonsman said, 17 black walking around from that side.
Jade CraigHOST
I mean, if it went on longer, it would have been somebody making donuts.
DanHOST
That's on here.
DanHOST
And then another city that I've never even heard of is called Noumea.
DanHOST
N-O-U-M-E-A.
AJGUEST
The capital of New Caledonia.
Selmanu UlalimamaitiHOST
Fiji Airways has also recently added the Gold Coast to its Australian schedule.
Selmanu UlalimamaitiHOST
New services to Noumea and New Caledonia are to begin later this month.
Selmanu UlalimamaitiHOST
In Aotearoa, New Zealand, the head of the electricity company, Mercury, believes power prices will stabilise as more generation projects come online.
Selmanu UlalimamaitiHOST
Yesterday, the company marked the opening of the $600 million New Zealand dollar Kaiwera Downs Wind Farm near Goa.
Selmanu UlalimamaitiHOST
Fiji Airways has also recently added the Gold Coast to its Australian schedule.
Selmanu UlalimamaitiHOST
New services to Noumea, New Caledonia are to begin later this month.
Selmanu UlalimamaitiHOST
In Aotearoa, New Zealand, police say they have spoken to high school students who were on the platform when a boy died at an Auckland train station.
Selmanu UlalimamaitiHOST
The boy was hit by a train at the Baldwin Avenue station in Mount Albert yesterday afternoon.
Geoff B GoodGUEST
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Geoff B GoodGUEST
Noumea, Vila.
Geoff B GoodGUEST
I rarely get off the ship.
Geoff B GoodGUEST
I've seen these ports so many times.
Jamie MackintoshGUEST
I shouldn't speak out of turn, but I'm really passionate around it.
Jamie MackintoshGUEST
I think that if we win a 6-2 against South Africa and you had the right mix on the bench, like a real powerful bench, I'm just daydreaming like it was in a Noumea...
Jamie MackintoshGUEST
Asafo-Omoa, maybe Freckie or Pasi, they're both very good like-for-like.
Jamie MackintoshGUEST
Atupu Voya, Wallace Atiti and Sadupsi Karifi on the bench as a 6-2.
Amelia CostiganCORRESPONDENT
Civil unrest engulfed the capital in 2024 as decades of simmering tension over independence from France boiled over, causing an estimated $3.6 billion in damage.
Amelia CostiganCORRESPONDENT
Coffee shop manager David Gosselin says Nouméa is still finding its feet.
David GosselinSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
I think we're, we're looking at a few slump years that are gonna be hard, and I think also in terms of business, if we can make it through these years, uh, the next few years will be more prolific and it's a test of endurance and, uh, being able to manage even though the conditions are really hard and it feels like we're getting hit from all over the place.
Amelia CostiganCORRESPONDENT
The task of fixing the economy now falls to a newly elected government, a multi-party coalition led by Milliculo Tukmuuli, who was in Paris last week to renegotiate funding propping up the territory.
David DewarHOST
And I think a couple of themes came through that for me.
David DewarHOST
One was energy, and we anticipated that, I think, with just how topical and significant the energy crisis has been for the region this year and so it wasn't surprising really to see that being a huge area of focus and so a couple of big announcements that have come out of that is this idea of a new renewable energy strategy that's going to be worked on as well as a new appointment so I think there's going to be a new Pacific Renewable Energy Commissioner based within the South Pacific community which Our listeners from last week will remember as one of those big crop agencies headquartered in Noumea.
David DewarHOST
And so that's going to have, you know, in addition to its existing science and technical type mandate, we'll also be specifically looking at how it can help facilitate that transition to renewable energy in the region.
David DewarHOST
But what better time to be Matt Freeman and contemplating the upcoming Oceania Renewable Power Summit in early October.
John BatchelorHOST
Gormley is not on Guadalcanal.
John BatchelorHOST
He's at Noumea, which is a free French post.
John BatchelorHOST
But Gormley... is a man who is, I think Nimitz at one point visits him in frustration, says he's too cautious.
John BatchelorHOST
What is it that Nimitz thinks about Gormley when he's reading this overwhelming traffic of inadequacy? Gormley doesn't have enough of anything to maintain this battlefront.
John BatchelorHOST
Why, Professor?
Craig SymondsGUEST
Well, I think that Nimitz believed he had given Gormley every chance.
Craig SymondsGUEST
He'd visited Gormley in Noumea.
Craig SymondsGUEST
Nimitz had, in fact, personally flown to Guadalcanal, met with Vandegrift, walked the lines, awarded Vandegrift with a medal in his bunker ceremony, decided that Guadalcanal could be held.
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