Ownership
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N.G. Goldfield Hotels Change Ownership
'J'HE hotels on the New Guinea gold fields appear to be changing owner ship, with a general tendency to become grouped under the control of one com pany.
It was reported recently that Mrs. F. J.
Stewart’s well-known Bulolo Hotel at Wau had been taken over by New Guinea Hotels Limited. A group of three men have purchased an equally well-known hotel, namely the Salamaua Hotel estab lished by Mrs. Alan Innes; and it is understood that one of the syndicate re ferred to is financially interested in Parer’s Hotel at Wau. The fourth gold field hotel, namely the newly erected hotel at Lae, is now being conducted by Mrs.
Baldie, who is a sister of Mrs. Stewart of the Bulolo Hotel at Wau. A photo graph of the new Lae hotel is published on page 10 of this issue.
Rev. Father Destable, a Marist mis sionary who has served for many years in Fiji, arrived in Sydney from Europe by the Mooltan on June 11. He has been on a holiday visit to France and will return to his station at Bemnna, Viti Levu, at the end of June.