[?] eavy Costs Make

[?] ading Difficult in P-NG

jI ORE travellers here than the [I hotels can accommodate”, I i remarked in Port Moresby to E. V. Crisp, managing director ; Steamships Trading Co. Ltd. e hear of a new hotel under way e by STC. How is it coming ng?”

We are making haste slowly,” i Mr. Crisp. “Before we start the el on that corner block (right osite Hotel Papua), we shall iplete the ‘freezer’, alongside the el site. When the ‘freezer’ is e, we shall take another look he position. Maybe, by then, we 11 know whether this is to be an producing country: that will is a difference. Building costs terrific —one cannot go rushing i big projects, these days, besides, the Administration does help. Costs of running a hotel are extremely heavy, and hotel ers surely should have what i they can get from liquor sales, the Administration is passing Club liquor licenses on a most ;rous scale everywhere.” lotel owners elsewhere in P-NG 3 commented bitterly on this ter. Mrs. Stewart, who conducts excellent hotel at Lae, points out she is surrounded by no less i 15 licensed clubs, which ously affect her hotel bar trade; that in turn makes it difficult ier to maintain a good standard ,ccommodation for travellers.) : is easy to criticise the private srs here”, said Mr. Crisp. “But many critics appreciate the of maintaining European staff? y European married man we on the staff costs STC £3,500. have to provide housing—we itain no less than 55 homes in Moresby. Someone compared itions in our department store with those in Anthony lerns, in Sydney. Do Horderns ide all their staff with housing, a trip overseas every two

S?”— Rwr.