There Are Now

16 Hotels In Papua-N. Guinea

F>R some time after World War 11, there were only three or four hotels in the whole ? Territory of Papua and New : Guinea. Now there are 16, and as the European population in creases, the number tends to grow.

The two hotels in Port Moresby, [owned by a Burns Philp subsidiary, could not cope with the growing 1 traffic; so a new hotel has been established at Boroko —some three f miles out—and it is well managed by Mr. Joe Morrissey. There is another hotel, a pleasant holiday and weekend place, several miles out of Moresby on the Sogeri Road, iat Rouna Falls, \ There is one small establishment at Samarai—there were two there before the war.

Salamaua was never re-built; so the famous old Salamaua Hotel (lodestar for trail-toughened miners of Edie Creek and Wau) now is but a memory.

A new, and very excellent hotel, Pine Lodge, has been established at Bulolo.

A new Company called Morobe

Hotels Ltd., has purchased the small Wau Hotel and the Goroka Hotel (and placed Mr. and Mrs. Bob Zeelen in charge); and at the end of July were reported to have purchased the Lae Hotel from Mrs F. M. Stewart, possession to be given as from September 1.

Mrs. Flo Gilmore is still con ducting her well-known hotel at Madang rumours of a sale apparently have no foundation.

There now are small hotels at Wewak, Kavieng, and Angoram (Mr. Peter England), Mr. K. Simons is building a hotel in the Territory’s newest centre— Kainantu.

There are two well-known hotels in Rabaul. Both Rabaul and the Islands District are growing—which fact may call for bigger or more hotels there.

If After an absence of 27 years, Mr. Robert Lee Smith and his wife Fa’amotu, returned recently to live in Eastern Samoa. Fa’amotu, in whose old village the couple have taken up residence, was a friend and adviser of Margaret Mead in 1926 when the latter spend some time in Samoa compiling her book Coming of Age in Samoa. The annual Junior Red Cross Church Parade took place on June SO at, Apia, W. Samoa, with 1,000

girls and boys parading on Apia Beach m their colourful uniforms.

At Apia Clock Tower, the High Com missioner, Mr. G. R. Powles, pre sented an award to a 12-years-old Samoan girl, Fa’afaga, who last year saved a young boy from drowning in the flooded Vaisigano River, near Apia.