Flood of Motors For Crowded Noumea
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Crowded Noumea
NEW CALEDONIA has set a record in motor-car imports; 321 vehicles in three months, 182 of them being landed at Noumea between Dec. 24 and Feb. 20. Most of the vehicles come from France, but the Caledonien, due from Marseilles at the end of March, had several British and German cars among her consignment of 139.
“As most of the vehicles are for Noumea, traffic difficulties will be in creased,” writes a correspondent.
“Accidents (most of them slight) are common in the town, and if the importation of cars continues at the present rate, the position will be come desperate. Noumea’s streets were never intended to carry the heavy traffic that has already been built up.”