TUAMOTU, collapse:
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New Lighthouse A"
Niau Atoll,
BUILT at a cost of 3,000,000 fran a new lighthouse at Niau AtJ Tuamotu, collapsed half hour before it was to be put iij operation, states a Papeete dispaj dated September 10.
Papeete adds that the extract inary disaster occurred in July..
The workmen, fortunately, w; away from the building whenj collapsed.
Work had been proceeding many months on the lighthou which was an urgently neeo navigational aid.
On August 18, the French Oceaj official gazette announced t; names of members of an offioj commission which would investig* the affair and the credentials ; the Public Works Department offif in charge of construction.