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Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 April 1961Vol. XXXI, No. 9

New Hotel For Vil[?]

pp. 46-47 · Read in the full issue

Gets Under Way

The site of a new hotel on t edge of the Erakor Lagoon, ne Vila, New Hebrides, has been mark out, says a Vila report.

A company has recently be formed, named the Societe Hotelie d’Efate (SHEF) for the hotel co struction.

A share prospectus is bei: issued. The hotel is to be built Polynesian lines with a centi building, and restaurant with dan floor.

The Vila reports say that it hoped that an initial capital £A50,000 will be found locally.

[?] AVIATION FUTURE. Another recent ad [?]e in South Pacific aviation has been the [?]ing of 10 Fijian youths to train in Aus [?]a and New Zealand. They may take over [?]rol of Nadi airport one day. [?]ght lads, between 16 and 20, have begun [?]ive-year course as radio technicians at [?]ane airport. Two have started courses in [?]ington. [?]e youths have been sent to Australia and by the South Pacific Air Council, on [?]h the Governments of Australia, Fiji, [?]da. New Zealand and the UK are rep [?]ted. [?]e photograph above, taken by Rob Wright, [?]s nine of the lads before their departure Fiji.