Tahiti Prepares
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For 1972 Games
Work has begun In earnest on a new stadium in Tahiti which will be the venue for the Fourth South Pacific Games in 1972.
The stadium will seat 10,000 people, including 2,300 under cover.
It is being built at Pirae, about a mile out of Papeete.
Incorporated in the project is an Olympic swimming pool and a "hall of youth" for the staging of indoor sports. The stadium proper will have a field for Rugby and soccer in its centre.
Because no private contractor sub mitted a tender within the figure fixed for the work, the task of build ing the stadium has been put in the hands of the Centre d-Experimenta tion du Pacifique. This is the organisation responsible for France's nuclear testing project at Mururoa Atoll.
Preliminary work on the building of the stadium began last November but was abandoned until recently because of continuous heavy rain in Tahiti,