Across Harbour

[?]W Suva Hotel Planned

LANS for a 40-bedroom hotel at Marau (commonly called Mos quito), one of the little islands the Bay of Islands area across i harbour from Suva, about three es out by road, are under way, j the Deputy Mayor (Mr. W. E. odsir) on March 22.

Ir. Goodsir said that he and ociates had taken a lease of the nd, which comprises several acres rounded by white sand beaches I is about 100 yards from the in highway. A viaduct would be It to the island and the hotel lid provide several types of ommodation —luxury suites with ir own private beach frontage, ti-bedded rooms with their own Rrers, etc., and large family rooms i about six bunks for local people ting a low-cost holiday.

Presumably something drastic be done about the mosquitoes of jquito Island, now to be called :au. For venom and ferocity they ild be hard to beat, according experienced people. And, like it mosquitoes, they dearly love blood, including tourists.)

Club Hotel Licence

[eanwhile the bar of the South s Hotel (which functions under old Club Hotel licence), in tral Suva, has been completed refurbished to the standard re ed by the authorities. The iting of a licence for this bar date the only operational part he projected hotel to replace the ricane-wrecked Club Hotel) was le conditional on an assurance ig given that the accommodation of the hotel would be proceeded i in a reasonable time. The n building has hung fire since Suva earthquake in September,