Tahiti Has Some

Big Plans

EW Public Works schemes for I Tahiti include the construction [an international airport at eete, lengthening and widening [wharves at that port; and a ro electricity scheme involving [of the water of Lake Vaihiria he mountains behind Mataiea. jws of these proposals was ight back to Tahiti recently by 1 pollticans Jean Ceran isalemy, and L. Legarde, who fbeen visiting Paris.

Jseryers, noting the time that (taking for the Government of [Condominium of the New ■ides to recondition two airstrips e, are sceptical of Papeete Bvmg an international airport fi early date.

Janwhile it is reported from )lulu that the Matson Co. has n an option on two sites near lete and is “exploring the pos ty of building a modern tourist 1 there.

Randolph Servier, Matson’s dent, was then in Paris discuss- Bertam aspects. It is reported that Governor Francois Toby of ch Oceania, in Honolulu ’en ’ Papeete from Paris, was in lr developing the tourist in -7 in every possible way, due to R resent unhappy aspects of ceama ’ s ec °nomy, and the f*mg end of the valuable «ea phosphate exports.

Hff rumo ur is that “in all ibihty” the Orient Line will re- S® c. lts servic e to include ete soon.

At least one of the new Matson trans-Pacific liners will be on the run in time for the Olympic Games traffic to Australia late in 1956.

J James A. Michener, American best-seller author, was married in October to Miss Yoriko Sabusawa, American-born Japanese. They arrived in Sydney by air on Novem ber 9, in the course of a world honeymoon tour. Michener’s first and best-known novel is Tales of the South Pacific; his last, Sayonara which was based on the romantic entanglements of US soldiers with Japanese girls. This is Michener’s third marriage.