Rush, They Hope
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rich Americans Will Rush, They Hope
According to advice from New aledonia, the long awaited erodrome that is to be built at apeete, Tahiti is one step sarer realisation. Work on it scheduled to begin in June.
It will be 10,725 feet long— hich is long enough for jet rcraft —and about 500 feet ide. Construction entails filling . land between a small island id the adjacent shore near ipeete and the project has been Iked about for years.
It is hoped that the new air )rt will be finished and in aeration by early 1961.
A project for building a six oried hotel in Papeete has also \en announced —the interests i hind Les Tropiques Hotel, just it of Papeete, are rumoured to ! behind it. And, comments our C correspondent wistfully, ihiti is counting on a rush of 2h Americans as soon as the rodrome is built and the hotel up.