Grand Pacific Hotel
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Additions Proposed in Suva
IT was announced in August that the owners of the Grand Pacific Hotel in Suva (the Union Steamship Co. of N.Z., Ltd.) had decided to build, on tne south side of the hotel, a new 2-storey annexe which would provide modern ac commodation for 45 additional guests, in suites of rooms, rooms with private baths and an additional lounge. The rooms would face either towards Albert Park or towards the sea, and there would be ver andahs and balconies all round. Each room or suite would have hot and cold water.
The hotel manager, Mr. C. Brown and his staff, had expressed their delight at the introduction of the additional and more modem accommodation: but, now it is feared that there may be some de lay in the building operations owing to the outbreak of war.
Mr. A. J. (“Jock”) Marshall, of St.
Paul’s College. Sydney University, and Miss Joy Wood, of Mosman, Sydney, an nounced their engagement in early Sep tember. Mr. Marshall is well-known in the Western Pacific as an explorer and zoologist .and has carried out scientific research work both in New Guinea and in the New Hebrides. Two of his published books deal with Melanesia—“ The Black Musketeers” and “The Men and Birds of Paradise”. He is now working on a new book dealing with his adventures as a member of the Austrian-Spitzbergen Ex pedition which went to the North Pole regions in 1937.