Another Hotel for Lae Soon
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Lae Soon
LAE is to have its second hotel, following the granting of a licence to Morobe Hotels Ltd. in early March.
The new hotel will be of the cabin type currently favoured for tropical hotels and will be erected in Mark ham Road, Lae, for about £50,000.
From the description of the pro posed hotel given to Lae Licensing Court, it is evident that the Com pany has learned a lot about hotels from its other pioneer-type hotel at Wau—and also from the new Pine Lodge hotel at Bulolo.
The hotel will consist of a main
building comprising kitchen, bar, lounge, dining room, office, etc— connected to cabins, flats, and a large block of 12 bedrooms by covered-ways.
There will be two beer-gardens.
Lae at present has only one hotel —the Hotel Cecil —owned by Mrs. F.
Stewart, who built it after the war for the cost of about £lOO,OOO. t Bands of the Royal Papua and New Guinea Constabulary, and the Pacific Islands Regiment may go to the Olympic Games if the Games organisers are willing. These native bandsmen made a visit to Australia at the time the Queen and Duke of Edinburgh visited the Common wealth and were very popular.