Pacific Islands Monthly
The news magazine of the South Pacific · since 1930
Pacific Islands Monthly, 15 September 1938Vol. IX, No. 2

Cool Hill Station

p. 47 · Read in the full issue

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For New Caledonian Residents

IT is reported in the New Caledonia newspaper, “Bulletin du Commerce”, that the municipality of Noumea has voted a sum of 10,000 francs wherewith to initiate a plan for the establishment of a health resort on the low mountains in the interior of New Caledonia.

It is stated that the hill station that is planned will be in the region of Mt.

Coulee, at an altitude of about 3,000 ft. and that the road which will connect Noumea with the proposed station will follow a route that is picturesque and cool.

There are many mountain ranges in the interior of New Caledonia running up to 4.000 ft. and it is surprising that nothing has been done in the past to create a hill station of this kind—so necessary for European residents in a tropical country. The cool hill station is one of the features of life in the Dutch East Indies.

The annual Fiji Show will open at Suva on October 10.

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