8,700 Motor Vehicles
p. 57 · Read in the full issue
In N. Caledonia
7TIHE motor vehicles registered in X New Caledonia, in August, were 8,700. Of these, 8,383 were privately-owned and the remainder belonged to the Government services and the Army.
In 1934 there were 1,146, and in 1940, 1,150. In seventeen years the number has grown by 6,876.
In the first half of the present year, more than 500 vehicles have been imported, mostly from France.
In the city of Noumea the pro portion of cars to population is 1
to 5, and increasing. Increasing, also, are grave traffic oroblems.
There are about 6,000 motor vehicles of all kinds registered in Papua and New Guinea, and between 6,000 and 7,000 in Fiji.— Noumea Correspondent. 1 A company bearing a Chinese name, situated in Wall Street, New York, has been advertising in Noumean papers for Trep a n g (beche-de-mer). Those interested are asked to contact the company.
The reefs of New Caledonia could supply all sea-slugs the company is likely to want, if someone could be induced to gather and cure it —not the best of jobs.