Fiji Has New Beach

Hotel

On The Hawaii Plan

From Our Own Correspondent SUVA, November 30.

THE news that Morris Hedstrom- Ltd. have finally decided to* ■ trim down the plans for the South Seas Hotel, at Suva, Fiji, is not unexpected. (See on other page), .

But it is now clear that the new hotel will do comparatively little ■ to relieve Suva’s chronic accom modation shortage.

Meanwhile the expanded Korolevu Beach Hotel, 70 miles west of Suva, has been opened with a lavish dis play of hospitality.

At the opening on November 2S ' were the Governor (Sir Ronald Garvey) and Lady Garvey, plus . more than 100 invited guests of Northern Hotels, Ltd.

The Governor and other speakers ; congratulated Sir Hugh Ragg on., the greatly enlarged Korolevu link:, in the Northern Hotels chain round , Viti Levu and praised the 1 picturesque scheme at Korolevu, , which has been built on the 1 characteristic Islands plan popular * in Tahiti and Hawaii.

The presence of a party of 15 « travel-agency men from New Zea- land possibly indicated that the 1 promoters of the tourist trade inj Fiji expect that the Dominion willJ continue to supply a very sub- stantial proportion of Fiji’s tourists-.

This traffic, as Sir Ronald Garveys pointed out, is by no means entirely one-way. Many of those who can j afford it go to New Zealand to-< escape the hot months in Fiji just c as an increasing number of New T Zealanders come to the Islands to < dodge the southern winter.

The Korolevu Hotel on the south 1 coast of Viti Levu, 45 miles from 1 Suva, complete with modern equip- ment, will accommodate 60 guests. .

Twenty well-built Fijian-style cot- tages are placed along a perfect d beach shaded by coconut palms.