NEW CALEDONIA 1919 Cash vouchers 50c and 1 Franc from the Nouméa Treasury

Description

New Caledonia. Cash vouchers’ 50c and 1Franc from the Nouméa Treasury
1919 Second Issues. Issue date: Nouméa, January 13, 1919. Very rare. Condition as seen in scans. Both have been used in circulation. Not uncommon to see these notes have been folded in quarters with a small hole in the middle of the note
On the front: Two handwritten signatures printed in blue with The Governor, Repiquet and The Paymaster, Trouillot.
On the Back is article 139 of the penal code on four lines.
In the centre, the words, "The vouchers will be withdrawn from circulation within one year of the end of hostilities"
Issuing authority :
Trésorerie de Nouméa
Dimensions of 50c; 105mm x 80 mm.
Dimensions of 1 Franc ; 108mm x 80 mm
No watermark, printer unknown.
Both notes have been in our family for many generations.
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During 1917–1918, war ravaged the hill country north of New Caledonia’s main island, the Grande terre. Occurring sixty-four years after France’s 1853 annexation of New Caledonia and in the midst of the Great War of 1914–1918, the conflict was known by the mid-twentieth century as “the last of the kanak revolts.” It represented to many—until the “events” of the 1980s—the final pacification of Kanak (the indigenous people of New Caledonia)