New Hotel Extension
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In Rabaul
PLANS have been submitted to the New Guinea Administration by Mr.
Norman Lee, for the first wing of the new Cosmopolitan Hotel, to be built close beside the existing building, in Rabaul. The wing will cost about £35,000, and will be part of a new hotel building planned to cost £200,000.
The new wing will contain 20 single rooms and a couple of suites; and each room will have hot and cold water, and be air-conditioned.
There also will be a modern lounge, 40 ft by 60 ft, with special amenities, built on the same design as the South Pacific Hotel, in California.
At present, a pumping plant at the hotel provides 2,500 gallons per day of non drinking water, from the wells under the town level; but the new building plan proposes to provide 20,000 gallons of drinkable water, from roof catchment into underground concrete tanks.
Mr. Lee, apparently, is confident about the future of Rabaul. In the next stage, £95,000 will be spent on a modern bar, running along the Kamarere Street frontage of the present hotel property.