New Cosmopolitan Hotel

For Rabaul

A GROUP of New Guinea business men have been successful tenderers for the premises of the Civilian Hostel, Rabaul, New Guinea, which has been run for the last year or so by the PCB.

The hostel will now become the “Cos mopolitan Hotel.” Miss Dorothy Stew art left Melbourne in June on her way to Rabaul where she will organise the new establishment.

Before the war the Cosmopolitan Hotel in Rabaul was run by Mr. A. J. Gaskin It is understood that he has an interest in the new hotel.

The French gunboat “La Grandiere” has completed a long Pacific cruise which took in the Marquesas, Tuamotu, Tahiti, Wallis the Loyalty group, New Hebrides and New Caledonia and New Zealand.

She then returned to her home port in Saigon.