Visitors To Tahiti Not
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TRAVELLERS are not being encouraged to visit Tahiti, said the new French Minister to New Zealand (M. Amand Gazel) on June 8. Nonetheless, it was unlikely that they would be completely prohibited as had been suggested in some quarters.
Shortage of food and accommodation in the Society Group was acute, and all persons who wished to remain for a longer period than the duration of a ship’s stay had to be properly accredited and possess adequate funds for all living expenses.
M. Gazel pointed out, however, that this regulation was nothing new; that it had been in force for many years before the war as it had in most Pacific Terri tories.
Post-war shipping difficulties and the British Dominions* preoccupation with supplying the United kingdom with food stuffs, was having inevitable repercussions in Tahiti which had received limited food supplies from New Zealand during the war.
M. Gazel stated that the only vessels at present running between New Zealand and French possessions in the Pacific were the phosphate ships for Makatea.