plan off
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Aitutaki resort plan off
The proposal by American stamp promoter Mr. Bert Todd to build a multi-million dollar tourist resort on the volcanic southern Cook Island of Aitutaki, is off.
However, publicity over the project has made the New Zea land Government take a hard look at the possibilities of developing the island itself. One result: a grant of $35,000 was allocated to partly pay for “transit accommodation” for 75 people at Aitutaki.
Mr. Albert Henry, the Cooks Premier, says NZ will support other Cooks proposals to develop Aitutaki, which, he said, had a “greater tourist potential” than the Cooks capital of Rarotonga where NZ will build a SNZ6 million plus jet airport.
He said two hotels would be built at Rarotonga. One, with 120 to 140 beds, would be on the site of the present Otera Hotel and be owned by several parties, including his govern ment, and be managed privately.
The local Tourist Authority would later decide which com pany would build the second hotel.