Norfolk Island

Work Begins On

New Hotel For

Work began at Norfolk Island in June on an 18,000 square ft hotel, the South Pacific. Sur

rounded by stately Norfolk pines,

it is situated in splendid park land near the Burnt Pine busi ness area.

Estimated to cost about $300,000, the South Pacific is owned by Trevor Collard, formerly host at the Awanui Hotel in New Zealand. He will run it with his wife.

Local business man, Ken Prentice, is in charge of the building project.

The architect is a New Zealander, Tony Mullan, who designed the White Heron hotel in Auckland.

The South Pacific will be the first planned hotel to be erected on Norfolk.

Its comfort and service will be of international standard. There will be a large swimming pool, a golf driving range, indoor bowls and regular film showings.

A 40-ton freezer will be installed to overcome seasonal shortages of produce.

The hotel will be wired for closed circuit TV. which will probably be available next year in the form of video-tape programmes. Every room will have its own TV set.

Seventy-two beds will be ready by Christmas and a further 40 will be available in the New Year.

At present there is a great shortage of good tourist accommodation, and the new hotel should go a long way towards alleviating this. ☆ ☆ ☆ KARL DANNINGER, an Austrian, has been appointed general manager of the Pago Pago Inter continental Hotel. He succeeds Herbert Moller who left Tutuila on June 1 for Hawaii. Danninger was trained in Austrian and Swiss hotel schools and has worked in Europe.

Africa and South and Central America. He recently worked as resident manager of Intercontinental’s Ambassador Hotel in Santo Domingo.