New Hotel In

Papua

Holiday Resort On The Kokoda Trail

From Our Own Correspondent

Port Moresby, July 6.

THE Kokoda Hotel, which has been built on the Kokoda Trail, between Kokoda and Buna, in Northeast Papua, as a holiday resort, will be ready for the reception of guests in December.

It has been planned and built, to pro vide accommodation for at least 16 guests, by the Kokoda-Buna Tourist Co., a sub sidiary of Sangara Rubber Plantations Pty., which operates plantations in the vicinity. It will have all modern amen ities: will be surrounded by gardens, a golf course and tennis courts (now being laid out); and, as it will be at least at a height of 1,000 feet, on the cool side of the mountains, it should be a favourite week-end resort for Port Moresby people.

The hotel has been built of local tim ber, milled by the Sangara people; and the furnishings and fittings will be simil arly made. The hotel has been granted a liquor license.

The Administration plans to reopen the Popindetta air strip (5 miles from the hotel) which was the first air strip used here by the Allies when they attacked the Japs in the Buna-Gona region.

The place is expected to become a popular resort for Australian visitors.

Another Hotel?

A BIG, new hotel is planned for Moresby, but we have no details yet.

Residents who have heard about it say they hope that the competition will result in lower prices at all three hotels—if the third one does eventuate.