Modern Hotel for Rabaul

From Our Own Correspondent

Rabaul, June 3.

IT is reported that Messrs. W. R. Car penter and Co. Lt(l. propose to form a subsidiary company in Sydney to spend £25,000 building and equipping a new up-to-date hotel here. It is planned to make the hostelry the finest in the Pacific, south of Honolulu.

Plans providing for 30 bedrooms, with hot and cold water and all modern con veniences are now under consideration.

The location favoured is said to be on the waterfront, south of Park Street.