Quickening Tempo
pp. 73-74 · Read in the full issue
In Norfolk Island Commerce
From Merval Hoare on Norfolk Island Faith in Norfolk Island’s future as a tourist resort has been shown recently by two mainlanders who have started in business on the island and others
who are busy building shops
which will open soon.
MRS. D. B. Millar, until recently a school teacher in Sydney, opened tearooms in one of K.
Prentice’s buildings at Burnt Pine early in August. The tearooms are open six days a week. Visitors and residents needing a quick “cuppa” while out shopping are finding them attractive.
At Middlegate, Mr. Karl Davies, who is also from Sydney, has opened the Norfolk Island Photographic Centre. Mr. Davies has earned his living as a photographer in many parts of the Pacific and has had considerable experience in under water photograhpy. He has worked with the J. A. Rank Film Coy. and other film units, and has been on expeditions with the writer Lowell Thomas.
Several buildings are going up in the Burnt Pine area, between the Hospital Corner and New Cascade Road. Mrs. Mavis Forbes, who came from New Zealand some years ago, expected to go into one of them by the end of September, selling Christian Dior model gowns. Her salon will be called the Paris Boutique.
A group of shops to be known as the Garden Shopping Centre is
being erected by Diegelman’s Con struction Co. Two will house Roy’s Pharmacy and Duncan’s Sports Shop, owned by Mr. Roy Sanderson and his son Duncan, which are now located in one of K. Prentice’s buildings.
The other shops will be Max and Thelma’s Household Furnishing Store, a ladies’ hairdressing salon and a coffee lounge. The coffee lounge is being built around a tall white oak tree which will form an unusual interior decoration. Local residents Mr. and Mrs. Max Diegel man are the owners of the Garden Shopping Centre.
Work has also started on a site recently bought for Milton’s Depart mental Store. The proprietors are Mr. Thomas T. Milton, a Sydney businessman and his son Mr. Ivan A. Milton.
The store will sell goods from the East, including radios, TV sets and cameras, Royal Copenhagen porcelain figures and Danish and French crystals. Trading will begin in November.
These new ventures will, of course, change the face of Burnt Pine and quicken the tempo of commercial life on Norfolk.
The island has entered a new phase—a busy, prosperous and com petitive period geared to tourism and duty-free shopping.
Inevitably, some of the dis advantages associated with prosperity will catch up with Norfolk, but the island itself is so lovely that the atmosphere cannot be completely ruined.