For Noumea
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Two New Hotels For Noumea
Newest hotel for Noumea is the Hotel Nouvata, which was expected to open just before Christmas at Anse Vata, three miles from the centre of Noumea. It is a luxury hotel, with 50 air-conditioned rooms and a swimming pool.
AN Australian company, Lanray Industries Ltd., has been largely responsible for the erection of the hotel. The company has provided half of the £A370,000 needed, and there are about 75 French and New Caledonian shareholders, including the Bank of Indo China.
Noumea has certainly been in need of a really good hotel, and plans for Nouvata touched off other develop ments. A second hotel, the Chateau Royal is to be opened early in 1966 about a mile further down the beach.
It will have 75 rooms. Some money from UTA, the French airline, has gone into its development.
Says a Noumea correspondent: “With the opening of these two hotels New Caledonia’s hotel problem will be solved. The owners now only have to find enough guests to keep them occupied.”