Changing The Face

Of Noumea

The New Caledonian building firm, Societe Caledonienne d’Enter prises et de Travaux, has helped change the face of Noumea in the past few years, adding numerous modern style buildings to the older Colonial look of France’s “Paris of the South Seas”. The view of Noumea, right, shows in the middle foreground the new suburb of Sud Pacific, built entirely by SCET. There are between 500 and 600 houses there.

[?] e is the three-storey barracks in [?]mea for military NCO's, their wives [?] families, completed by SCET last year, [?] middle photograph depicts the new [?] ary hospital, and below is Noumea's [?] est department store, completed three [?] s ago for Societe Havraise Cale donienne.