Rabaul Hotel Licence To Be
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Transferred
THE publican s licence for the premises know r n as the “Cosmopolitan Hotel,”
Rabaul, New Guinea, is now in the legal process of being transferred. The licence is at present held by Mr. A. L.
Gaskin, son of Mr. A. J. Gaskin, who ran the Cosmopolitan Hotel, Rabaul be fore the Pacific war. The building was destroyed during the Japanese occupa tion.
If the Court agrees, on July 21, the new licencee will be Mr. P. F. Bailey, of Rabaul. It is expected that the new Cosmopolitan Hotel will, for the time be ing, be the former Civilian Hotel, which was run by the Production Control Board in Rabaul until recently.
European status has been conferred upon three well-known residents of the Gilbert Islands John Milne, Henry Schutz and Tekarakara Brechtefeld. All had good records during the war—especi ally Mr. Milne, who as known in 1941 was a very capable young radio operator.
Mr. Schutz probably is identical with that clever young Euronesian who, in the years just before the Jap invasion, made a marked success of the tangitangs (native co-operative societies).