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Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 October 1956Vol. XXVII, No. 3

Parisian Chef Plans

p. 55 · Read in the full issue

A Coral Paradise Plus

FAMOUS Parisian chef Raymond Oliver, at present in New Caledonia, plans to erect a bungalow type of hotel for tourists on He des Pins, a coral “paradise” about 25 miles from the colony’s southern extremity. Tourists would be flown to the island by New Caledonia’s internal air service TRANSPAC, using Dragon Rapide aircraft.

M. Oliver hopes to obtain Govern ment aid to carry out the project.

He will need it. His plan is es timated to call for an investment of 900 million Metropolitan francs. t Sir Gordon Taylor took his Bermuda flying-boat Frigate Bird 111 to Papeete on a passenger flight from Sydney early in September.