[?]Suva Hotel

[?]ON [?]N [?]e Plans for [?]Suva Hotel

l’S South Seas Hotel is “on ;a i n”—or may be. Morris [edstrom Ltd. announced at id of October that the corn intended to apply for a in’s licence for the premises corner of Gordon Street and a Parade. ? the destruction of the old Hotel by the hurricane of y 28, 1952, there have been jd contradictory announce about the erection of a new as announced in 1952 that a itoried “South Seas” hotel oe built at a cost of £F250,000. ictually started—and stopped t after an earthquake when >und floor bar was complete, building has remained in -ate ever since, bar was operated under the of the old Club Hotel—but 'iji Licensing Court was about this, operation of the ng suspended at one period, reatened with suspension at

The company announced that it would proceed with the hotel on a “modified plan”—but when it was found that the modified version would cost £F339,000, MH announced in April, 1956, that they were call ing the whole thing off and would not proceed.

The Licensing Court cancelled the licence, and the Club Hotel closed its door on June 30. The eyesore of the creeper-covered barely-started building remained.

A Morris Hedstrom Spokes-

IV man was very cautious when questioned about the new application—based on a modifica tion of the modification. He said it was hoped to build a 20-bedroom hotel, but this plan might not be proceeded with if the cost were found to be too high.

He said: “The application results from the fact that Morris Hedstrom Ltd. have been reluctant to abandon entirely its plans for a hotel in Suva.

“The firm has therefore decided to submit to the Court proposals for a hotel on a more moderate scale than that originally envisaged.

The proposed hotel will still be a good hotel, but on a smaller scale than we had hoped to provide in our earlier plans.”

The proposed plans would incor porate much of the design on the

t h n e fln oi S d he c d lu b b U & ofms toe g new o hoteI tIU be lncorporated in American Aimays are at pre offkes Smg the ° ld bar aS tem P°rary from providing much needed accommodation, a new hotel

do something to improve “pig swill” drinking condi- The old Club Hotel catered large bar trade —possibly the t in Suva. When it closed, irs took their business and i to the other four hotels, in f which public bar space is hat inadequate; it is little in the remaining two.

A. F. Bailey, of Manly, Syd svill leave for Rabaul next to spend a two months’ holi ith her son, Mr. C. B. Bailey, :ing director of Coconut Pro- Mrs. Bailey is a sister of the ir Walter Carpenter,

New Type

Church

in Suva

An architect's draw ing of the Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter Day Saints which is now in course of erection in Des Voeux Road, Suva, Fiji.

Photo by Stinsons.