"Dead House" Goes.

Passing of Old Port Moresby Landmark.

Prom Our Own Correspondent.

Pt. Moresby, Mar. 6.

rnHE “Dead House”, an old landmark in A Port Moresby, Has been demolished to make room for the new hotel which Messrs. Burns, Philp and Co. Ltd. is building on Port Road, on the vacant allotment facing the present Hotel Mores by.

For years this building has been used as an annexe to the present hotel. It

was in existence about 1889, and was then the only “hotel” in the district. It was called the Hotel Port Moresby, and contained one large centre room in which were six stretchers.

When overcrowded with visitors from the goldfields, further accommodation was provided by stretchers along the somewhat narrow verandah,. The walls were of corrugated iron, as were also the roof and the several addition to the building.

Old timers state that the kitchen was the bar, and that later on improvements allowed for a butcher’s shop in the base ment.

In 1910, it was found that the accom modation did not do justice to the town, and the present Hotel Moresby was built nearby. The old building was then used as a “dead house”.

In addition to the new hotel the pre sent one (Hotel Moresby) will be remod elled throughout, and will help to accom modate the increasing flow of visitors.

Mr. W. L. Heron, planter of Rabaul, arrived in Melbourne by the “Nellore” in February, and has taken up residence at Frankston.

Rev. Father F. Cadoux, of the Sacred

Heart Mission, Yule Island, Papua, left

Port Moresby by the “Maetsuycker” at

the end of February, en route to France.

Mr. Eric Granter has been appointed manager of Roberts’ Transport Co., Rabaul, New Guinea.

Dr. and Mrs. W. M. Ramsay returned to Fiji by the “Niagara” on February 26.

Port Moresby’s first hotel, later known as the “Dead House”. On the skyline, in this photo graph, which was taken in 1900, is the Labour Office.