New Hotels
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New Guinea
AFTER years of discomfort, there are indications that travellers in New Guinea soon will have improved hotel accommodation.
The foundations of Mrs. Flo Stewart’s new hotel in Lae have been laid and the work of erection is making some pro gress. Mrs. Stewart made plans three years ago for the building of a new hotel, but was consistently frustrated by official dom and by post-war conditions in New
Guinea generally.
The erection of a new hotel in Rabaul for Mr. A. W. Brown has made good pro gress, and it is hoped that the hotel will be opened for business in April next. This is the concern in which Mr. Gilbert Renton is interested.
Port Moresby, which was not destroyed in the war, has two good hotels in opera tion —and both have been run at capacity since the return of civil administration.