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Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 October 1954Vol. XXV, No. 3

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p. 138 · Read in the full issue

Tahiti Tourist Bureau— Third Round

|?ARLIER this year the Sydney £j travel agency known as World Travel Headquarters Pty. Ltd. opened a branch office in Papeete in the former American Consulate building. A sign erected ? over the entrance— Tahiti Visitors Bureau —was h , e by the official Syndicate! Initiative which maintains an office m the Custom House budding, with the sign, Tourist Bureau, at its entrance

that the WTH sign was permissioie The Syndicat dTnitiative has now issued a sticker, apparently in tended for attachment to literature handed to arriving tourists, which clearly states where their two offices are located; it notes that their ser

vices are entirely free; and it wa that the Government takes no i ponsibility for “private Tou Agencies, including the Tahiti V tors’ Bureau.”

The sticker seems likely to an unfortunate impression to v tors not knowing the whole sto