SOCIETE TAHITIENNE de PARTICIPATIONS INDUSTR IELLES (S.T.P.I.) 
Domaine DSAtimaono 
PAPEETE, TAHITI 
18 February 1957 
Smithsonian Institution 
U. S. National Museum 
Washington 25, D. C. 
Attention: Dr. Waldo L. Schmitt 
Receipt if acknowledged of your letter of 4 February relating to 
eventually furnishing you with cane alcohol. 
We are, in fact, distillers of cane alcohol, the only ones in 
Tahiti. Unfortunately, the alcohol that we distill each year is reduced 
through stockage (storage) to 80 percent and we would be able to make 
90 percent alcohol (and even 92 percent), only at the moment of the 
cutting season and distillation, which embraces only the months of 
July, August, and September. 
Before this we are now in a position of furnishing to you only 
alcohol at 80 percent (not denatured), at a price of 25 francs per litre 
(about 40 cents). 
Insofar as concerns the laws, you would be able to obtain the 
permit only by making a special request to the Governor for the MAREVA, 
being based at Papeete, we believe that the governor will grant you 
this exemption without difficulty. 
We remain at your service for more complete information, and we 
remain, your sincerely. 
Jean Bres 
S.T.P.I. 
Administrator 
(Translation typed by ALK:3-26-57) 
