Building Progress In Santo,
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From Our Own Correspondent
Santo, Jan. 20.
SHORTLY after the Harris’ Cinema was opened on the Northern Arm of the Segond Canal, the Santo Branch of the New Caledonian Company, Maison Barrau, built a second store in this area of new development.
There are rumours that other stores in this important section of the New Hebrides plan to branch out also along the Northern Arm, and in addition to a new hotel, a sort of “country road-house” is planned in the vicinity of the Cinema.
It does not seem likely, though, that the original settlement facing the East, North Eastern entrance to the Canal will become secondary. Close together along this front are the stores of Burns Philp, Gubbay Freres and Tom Harris, their staff quarters, and two hotels.
Both sites have many natural advan tages and the twist-over can only result in each “town” being a duplication of the other, with equal facilities and equal influence.
The anchorage opposite the entrance to the Canal is the one that visiting traders in small ships prefer; whilst that along the Northern Arm is deeper, is lined with the wharves and docks built by the Americans during the war, and is the location of the major Tonkinese camps—sources of wealth worth catering for!
Monsieur Vidal, Inspector of Public Works in Tahiti, departed on the MV “Thor I,” recently for the USA where he w 11 select a modern dry dock for Tahiti.