Hotel Rabaul Changes
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Hands
THE Hotel Rabaul, which is the largest hotel in New Guinea, has changed hands again.
Last year, the lease of Mrs. Kathleen Bignell terminated, and was taken over by Mr. and Mrs. Middleton; but the war and the curtailment of shipping services curtailed hotel business, and Mr. and Mrs. Middleton decided not to go on with it. Mr. Middleton, in April enlisted in the A.I.F.
The owners, Messrs. Nelson and Rob ertson, Ltd., of Sydney, placed the hotel temporarily under the management of Mrs. Gilmore, and they have advised that the lease will be taken over shortly by a Sydney family, who have had ex perience in running good-class hotels, although they have not previously resided in the tropics.