No Paradise For Tourists
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Prom Our Own Correspondent HONIARA, March 26.
AN airways company is planning to bring batches of tourists for a month’s stay in Honiara, British Solomon Islands, BSIP residents are wondering just what the tourists will expect when they arrive.
The Protectorate has been too busy get ting on its feet again after the destruction of the war years to have had time or building material or labour available for a residential hotel, or any organised facilities for tourists, and conditions are officially described at present as “Some what Primitive.”
General opinion seems to be that if the tourists like roughing it for a bit they could enjoy themselves, but if they were all out for lotus-eating in a technicolour paradise with home comforts and Cook’s tours laid on, they are due for something of a shock.