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Business Profile:
Le 1 Pacifika Giftware is a specialist gift shop that caters to a
growing demand for exotic products handcrafted from the natural
fibres and textures of the Pacific.
Where to find us:
Le 1 Pacifika at 143 Great South Rd, Papatoetoe, is a treasure
trove filled with all kinds of gems unique to Oceania.
Only a few minutes off the Highway 1 motorway and a stone’s throw
away from Otara, Manukau and Otahuhu, we are located in the heart
of South Auckland, the world's most populous city of Pacific
Island people.
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Le 1
Pacifika Giftware: A wide range of giftware elegantly displayed
gives you plenty of choices
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Our Products:
Items on the popular list include fine jewellery intricately
carved from sea shells, free flowing floral Hawaiian mumus, finely
woven Samoan baskets decorated with shells, kukui nuts and tapa
pieces for the wall. Many customers buy items seen on the popular
TV series Shortland Street .
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Popular items:
Our most popular items are the hand printed ‘Tevaga’ designs on
the screen printed pulutasi, alohas and shirts that come in an
assortment of vibrant colours, styles and sizes.
The fabrics are also available in rolls. For the young and trendy
— there is a wide range of urban T-shirts with Pacific slogans and
accessories like fine feathers, hair pieces, bandanas, armlets,
necklaces and ear rings.
Le 1 Pacifika also stocks a wide selection of miniature Samoan
fales, little wooden kava bowls, traditional war clubs and Tongan
carvings — ideal gifts for the retiring executive.
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Le 1
Pacifika Giftware: We also supply vibrant, colourful screen
printed puletasi, alohas and shirts
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Books & Literature:
Academics and council libraries buy up large when it comes to
literature in the Samoan and Tongan vernacular. For the avid
churchgoers there are bibles cased in tapa or mats made from dried
pandanus leaves.
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Quality Assurance Guaranteed:
Owner operator Tevaga Sione insists on the best quality for Le 1
Pacifika customers.
Service and hospitality come naturally to Tevaga who’s worked for Air New Zealand for 24 years.
His job enables him to visit the marketplaces in all the airline’s
island stopovers where he replenishes his supplies.
On the days
when he is away flying, the shop is in the capable hands of his
beautiful daughter Lealofi. |
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Le 1
Pacifika Giftware: Well travelled owner Tevaga Sione Lea'vasa
replenishes his stock often
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