What the Tourist Trade
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AT about the same time that it was announced from Suva that work on the new South Seas Hotel would be halted at the second or third floor, Honolulu was opening a new 200-room wing on one hotel, and at least four new hotels of the unit type containing ten, fourteen, thirty-five and sixty units, respec tively.
At the same time too, construction commenced on an eleven-storey 300-room hotel for Matson, a $15,000,000, 275-room luxury-class hotel to be named Waikiki Biltmore, and a 300-room hotel to be named The Reef.
When these are completed, Hono lulu’s major tourist hotels will num ber 48—to cater for an overseas tourist traffic that numbered 80,000
in 1953 and will increase by 10,00(1 per year during the next three years, according to tourist experts.
Apart from these hotels, Hawaii has nothing that Fiji, Samoa, Tahiti or many other South Pacific groups have in greater measure.
H Mr. James Spillius, an anthro pologist who was attached to the National University, Canberra, while on a mission to Tikopia, in the Solomons, left for England at the end of November, He will re turn to his post as research assist ant to Professor Raymond Firth, at the University of London.
Mr. Otto Sanft, prominent mer chant of Vavau, Tonga, has re cently doubled the size of his Neiafu store. The old store will now be entirely devoted to clothing and fancy goods, etc., and the new section, in an adjoining building, will be given over to groceries.