help for outer

Tui Lau' means help for outer Fiji Islands. . .

Tui Lau, Fiji’s biggest inter and passenger and cargo ssel, left Suva in mid-July on r first, six-day voyage to the

iu Group.

Pipped to give the colony’s tourist ustry to the outer islands a big >st, the 800-ton, refurbished rwegian coastal vessel can carry to 170 passengers. >he is owned by a group of Fiji evinces, the Maritime Co-operative >ociation, who paid £F75,000 for ship and its alterations, r ui Lau arrived in Suva in late ie after a long delivery voyage m Harstad, an Arctic Circle port.

Vhen she berthed at Suva Wharf, nen from Lau staged the rare jmony of Cere, which is per ned to welcome important ships.

Lau’s crew raced ashore, with prize of a tabua (whale’s tooth) the first man to reach the waiting nen.

'he vessel’s master, Captain Don idt, collected the tabua. i a ceremony two weeks later, rtly before she left Suva, the livalu of Bau, Ratu George obau, commissioned the Tui Lau i a tanoa of yaqona. litial plans are to run the ship regular six-day runs from Suva the Laus, and six-day runs to uka, Savusavu, Taveuni, Mbutha , Rabi Island, Natewa Bay and rn, along the same route, efore 1969, it is also hoped Tui will be making calls at isolated ima. ui Lau includes accommodation 32 first-class passengers, 25 nd-class passengers and 47 engers in aircraft seating. Seats i BOAC 707 jets have been inin the ship (this airline ntly replaced its Boeing seats with more-popular seats from its fleet )ClO aircraft). lere will be a cafeteria on board. [E Hotel Taharaa, the multi storey, 200-room hotel being by the Intercontinental Hotel »oration at “One-Tree Hill” it three miles out of Papeete, open for business on December le new hotel will be Tnter nental’s second in the Pacific ds and its ninth in the Pacific i area.

LATEST addition to Port Moresby’s growing selection of better class accommodation is the Davara Motel, Ela Beach, formerly Davara House, which has just been extended by the addition of new wings, and a swim ming pool.

The new extensions, in concrete block, three stories high, give the motel 55 rooms, all fitted with refrigerators and with their own toilets and showers.

Bed and breakfast is 59.50 single, 7.50 double. Smorgasbord lunch is $1.50, and an average dinner from $2.00 to $2.50, giving an inclusive tariff of $13.50 a day, plus laundry.

The motel is operated by a private company owned and managed by Mr. and Mrs. Jack Woodward, formerly of Queensland They own the Davara Motel at Southport.

Shortly they plan to introduce a fleet of rent-a-car Holdens ,at $4.00 a day pFs 8c a mile. They will pro vide a 15-seater bus to meet aircraft, and for free tours of local sights.

A ft cnriser, with twin 60 hp Gardner diesels is also on order from Hotw Kong.

“"Hiere will be no charge for either,” said Mr. Woodward ,n P'W ?n June. “We plan th ~’* f " ins e benefits to nush up the occunancv and keep visitors here.”

The "Tui Lau" comes into the wharf at Suva at the end of her long delivery voyage. She's Fiji's biggest local ship, and she'll make an impact on the tourist

industry.