Noumea's Magenta
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Airport To Be Improved
A total of 20 million French Pacific francs ($A200,000) has been allotted this year for im proving Noumea's Magenta Air port, base for all internal air services in New Caledonia, in cluding the Loyalty Islands.
Most of the money will come from France. It will enable urgent repairs to be made to the strip, the purchase of adjoining land for new buildings and the construction of a large and badly-needed hangar.
The airport, which was built during World War II by the US Air Force, has had little done to it since then, although passenger traffic increased more than 400 per cent, between 1956 and 1964, and the amount of freight car ried in the same period increased 14-fold.
The 20 million francs to be spent this year are part of a rehabilitation programme to cost about 120 million.