[?]He New Tourist
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Look Of Tahiti
rom our Tahiti Correspondent aircraft will start landing on new Papeete airport in May, Thereafter, Tahiti residents forward —with a couple of ts here and there—to a bigger s t boom than ever. the hotel development front Villiam (Bill) Harwick, from iOS Angeles, has acquired a aold on oceanfront property at auia (about TO miles west of ste) where he promises 64 de bungalow units by June, 1961. :cted so far: Just his billboards ng the place “Tahiti Village”, was Bill who brought the first mditioned car ever to appear ’ahiti. It is a 1961 ice-blue outh hard-top). : announced for January is the ng of the first units of the aungalow-village at Faretea, 36 east of Papeete.
Tahiti these past three months illiam M. Cooley, special agent he South Pacific Investment •any, Issaquah, Washington, s investigating very, very care the assured dividends on ican capital invested in hotel :ng in Tahiti. antime everyone is asking ’ has no large French or Swiss Jnent company shown interest •tel construction in Tahiti?” j plans are not yet on paper; ’ahiti, with its beautiful lagoons incredible coral gardens iding with exotic colourful fish, •king forward to the creation submarine park, unique in the , as a top-tourist attraction, more concrete and visible t attraction at the moment is i Gauguin, waterfront char and son of the great Paul, who is that his one-man business iking bamboo and string fish for the tourists is booming, what does he attribute his ercial success? Someone sug l that he autograph his handi- So the price of one small fish with a spidery signature, e Gauguin” is 50 francs (about hillings).
fheir First Super-Market
Sing Tung King have opened rst super-market in Papeete, lated on the waterfront, the was designed by young Paris ;d architect Siu Ten Shing, 27, ombines modernity with spaci ss—a far cry from the usual se-owned Papeete shops which y a crowded jumble of every from canned soup to Jap slippers.
I Tung King has sections for d goods, toys, porcelain, es, dry goods, electrical goods vines.
Neat Tahiti-born Chinese clerks are on hand to encourage and aid the buying public—mainly consist ing at this point of French residents and tourists.
The Tahitians appear to be a little overwhelmed by the glory of it all, preferring to peer through the shiny glass windows and admire, rather than buy.
Other shops of this type are planned for Papeete’s waterfront in a “face-lifting” designed to im prove the downtown shopping dis trict.
But will the local buying public patronise these emporiums rather than peer at them? No doubt, in time; but shopping habits are hard to change and the little back street shops are doing fine.
• Aitutaki Survey: A Rnzn
survey party, complete with launch, will leave Auckland aboard Moana Roa in January to carry out a sur vey of the main anchorage off Arutunga. The six-man team will be headed by Lieutenant I. W.
Munro.
During World War II the Ameri can forces established two buoyed moorings off Arutunga, but these 'were never maintained after the war and one buoy sank within a few years. The other mooring parted when Maui Pomare was secured to it—fortunately without unfortunate results to the ship. The holding ground is not very good except in a very restricted area. The Navy will determine this area during the survey.