Salamaua To Have

Another Hotel

A SYNDICATE consisting of Messrs.

Allen Fuller, Peter Jensen and T.

Zoffman, has been granted a licence for a new hotel, to be erected at Salamaua, New Guinea.

A site has been selected on the inner side of the peninsula, and a two-storey building, estimated to cost £lO,OOO, is to be completed within 12 months.

If, as is expected, the new road be tween Salamaua and Wau is to follow the Bitoi route, and a bridge is built across the Francisco River, a certain amount of land will be open for agricul tural and general purposes between the aerodrome and the foot of the moun tain, and it is expected that this devel opment will add to the importance of Salamaua.

There already is one hotel at Sala maua—the Salamaua Hotel, controlled by Messrs. W. R. Carpenter & Co. Ltd.

It was established some 13 or 14 years ago (when the Morobe Goldfield was first opened) by Mr. and Mrs. Allen Innes.

Mr. L. J. Warren, of the Union S.S.

Co., at Rarotonga, C. 1., and Mrs. Warren, left on March “Matua” for two months’ furlough in N.Z.

Dr. V. W. T. McGusty, director of Medical Services in Fiji, returned to Suva in March after a brief visit to Aus tralia.

Miss I. Wilkinson arrived in Samoa re cently from New Zealand to take up duties as sister at the Government Hos pital at Apia.