in Pago Pago
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$2,000,000 for Hotel in Pago Pago
ON a business visit to Auckland in October, Mr. Peter E. Reed, a leading American Samoa businessman, told the press that work was to commence in November on a 100-room, two million dollar tourist hotel in Pago Pago. He was reported as saying that it was being built by Samoa Area Airways.
Just three years ago there was a fanfare from Pago Pago heralding the construction of a 7-storey, 216room. two million dollar hotel to be built by Samoan Airlines Limited and a Texas firm, which was also making available a further three
million dollars for other enterprises in American Samoa. Samoan Air lines and the hotel, never developed beyond the visiting card and letter-head stage.
So far as we know, the new company, Samoa Area Airways, is not yet operating any air services.
A good financial return from a two million dollar investment in Pago Pago may seem a little difficult but all interested in tourism in the South Pacific will certainly wish the project well, if indeed it has arrived. t A group of RNZAF technical experts visited Nukualofa in Sep tember to inspect flying-boat mooring buoys.