Wau Hotels Sold To

Carpenter Interests

THE two licensed hotels at Wau, the chief town of the New Guinea gold fields—Parer’s Hotel and the Bulolo Ho tel—were sold on November 14 to a syn dicate in which Messrs. W. R. Carpenter and Co. Ltd. has a controlling Interest.

The Bulolo Hotel was started in the “early days” by Mrs. F. S. Stewart. Par er’s Hotel was erected early last year.

Tlwo new companies, the Wau Hotel Ltd. and the Bulolo Hotel Ltd., will be formed in Sydney to operate the estab lishments. These concerns will take charge immediately the transfers are sanctioned by the N.G. Administration,