More Accommodation
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Fiji Hotel Building
More Accommodation More Tourists
T> EVIVED interest in hotel bi ing in Fiji should do sc thing to relieve shortage of hotel
commodation—biggest bottleneck
Fiji tourism.
Mr. Hope Gibson, well-kn Australian merchant, has purchs Mr. Barry Philp’s interest in Beachcomber Hotel, Deuba.
January, Mr. R. Grayson, owne a hotel at Casino, NSW, was in making plans for the erection c new hotel opposite the Bank of I Zealand, in Lautoka.
At Navua, Fiji Builders Ltd., which Mr. A. H. Marlowe is hea« making good progress with the c struction of a new hotel which 1 firm will own.
In Suva an application for a i mit to build a licensed hotel of beach type at Lami, Bay of Isla was approved. If plans are real this hotel promises to provide S with a little “night life” within « reach of the city, as the owne: Mr. Hawthorne, intends to emj entertainers and make the est lishment a rendezvous for pan and social functions. There wil 8 bedrooms as required by permit, and possible additional commodation of the “bure” type In Suva city, the licensing co was to reconsider renewal of South Seas Hotel bar license ei in February, but it appears posst that it will not be renewed and bar will remain closed, as at presd until there is definite evidence t the owners intend proceeding v the construction of the accomma tion portion of the, building, ha!, since the Suva earthquake September, 1953.