New Hotel At Tavua, Fiji
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Prom Our Own Correspondent
Suva, Nov. 20.
ANEW hotel, attractively built on modern lines, and very well equip ped for the comfort of overseas travel lers, has been built at Tavua, on the northern coast of Viti Levu, and was formally opened at a public dinner on November 4. Sir Maynard Hedstrom pre sided and gave an interesting history of the district and of the establishment and expansion of the cane-sugar and gold mining industries.
Visitors to Fiji, making a leisurely pro gress around the main island, and wish
ing to see the new goldmines, will find the new Tavua hotel a very comfort able stopping-place. It is under the man agement of Miss Griffiths, lately of the Ba hotel.
Dr. J. Nimmo, who has been Govern ment medical officer at Thursday Is land for seven years, was in Sydney on holidays in November.
Colonel David Barnett, who has had considerable experience in hotel manage ment in New Zealand, arrived in Fiji recently to take up the position of man ager of McDonald’s Hotel at Suva.