Evolution of a Hotel . ..

This (left) was Port Moresby's only h[?] photographed in 1900, and even then about years old. It was called the Hotel Moresby and consisted of one large cen[?] room in which there were six stretchers. W[?] business was brisk, more stretchers were up along the verandah. Roof and walls [?] of corrugated iron. In 1910 it was [?]ec that Moresby warranted something b[?] (lower left), and this building was constru[?] But the old hotel remained as a sort annex —known to the old Territorians as "Dead House"—until about 1938 when it demolished to make way for the new H[?] Moresby (lower right) which is well know present day Moresby residents. The Mon is regarded as the town's second hotel—H[?] Papua, further up Musgrave St., is rega[?] as the "best". Both are owned by a B[?]

Philp subsidiary.