New Caledonia
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Plans for Developing New Caledonia 10-Year Plan to Cost 1,500 Million Francs
DR. CATALA, of the newly-formed French Institute of Oceania has been visiting the west and north of New Caledonia interviewing colonists and making a survey of the coffee and other plantations. His suggestions are likely to have some bearing on the Colony’s economic future and are likely to be taken into account by the Conseil General, which is interested in a developmental plan for the French Union which is spon sored by the French Government.
The 1947 plan is expected to cost 203 million (French not NO francs, of which Metropolitan France provides 88 millions and the Colony the remaining 115 millions. This will be alloted at fol lows: Harbours, 5 millions; roads, 20 mil lions; aviation, 5 millions; telecommuni cations, 75 millions; electricity, 10 mil lions; and mines, 20 millions. The rest goes to health, 36 million; education, 10 millions; urban development, 2 millions; and water and sanitation, 20 millions.
This plan is only part of a ten-year plan for New Caledonia which is designed to cost 435 millions of Pacific francs and 1.044 million French metropolitan francs.