[?] Ub Hotel

Loses In Suva

HHE old Club Hotel, of Fiji, finally I, went out of existence on June 30. The real hotel was wrecked i the hurricane of January, 1952 nd from then functioned tem jrarily in what was to have been le palatial South Seas Hotel.

The new hotel, however, never got ;yond the ground floor, which Duses the bar, which functioned ider the City Hotel licence, and a lort while ago the owners, Morris edstrom Ltd., announced that the •oject would not be proceeded with i costs made the proposition un lonomic.

It was stated at the time that more modest establishment was mtemplated but apparently this an, too, has been abandoned as ie Club Hotel bar now goes out existence.

What is to be done with that part the building that was completed it is in a good position in Vic ria Parade—is not known.

Mr. Bill Hayward, the licencee, id his wife will shortly leave Fiji, ley will eventually settle in ueensland.

On the final day of the old hotel’s ficial existence, big crowds of Lends called in to say farewell in e appropriate manner.

t Surgical treatment of pulmonary tuberculosis in New Guinea natives will be started in July by a West Australian surgical team. The team is going to Port Moresby at the re quest of the Minister for Territories. t An invitation to send six Sea Scouts from Fiji to a regatta in

Wellington, New Zealand, next January has been accepted. Sea Scouts from all over New Zealand will gather for the event. To help to meet the cost of sending the representatives from Fiji, Sea Scouts in Suva are arranging money-rais ing drives.