Air Hazard May Halt Fiji Hotel

Work on the foundations had already begun when it was suggested recentlv that tbp suggesiea recently mat me 1 ravelodge organisation s proposed $650,000 hotel at Nadi Airport might have to be re- Hpci an pH uesigneu.

Mr. C. T. Thompson, general manager for the Travelodge group in Fiji, denied that the stop-work had been ordered by the Fiji Government. He said the Public Works

Department had merely suggested that the company take another look at the hotel ’ s desi 8 n - T* l6 company itself stopped the work on August 22.

The hotel’s site is near the airport boundary and the trouble seems to be that the L Proposed design for a two-storey hotel might prove to be a hazard to aircraft landing and taking off from the airport’s altern ative strip. The hotel was to have been completed by July next year. If the hold-up means a major re-design of the plans, there could be long delay.