Old Name, New
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The Club Hotel (it started out ne years ago to be the South as Hotel) is slowly taking ipe in Suva and will probably ready for its first guests at ? beginning of October.
The hotel is being built by nris Hedstrom Ltd. but will operated by Northern Hotels i., with Mr. Max Lovell as nager. v he name “South Seas” would )bably have had more appeal overseas visitors—but the sees felt that the old name Club Hotel should be per uated. The bar of the new i functions under the old ib Hotel licence; the old el itself, a veteran known generations of Fiji residents, eived the coup de grace in 1951 hurricane.
I he new hotel will have 17 -conditioned bedrooms, each h its own private bathroom I balcony. That amount of ommodation is only a drop the bucket of Suva’s hotel ■ds —but it will be a very come drop, for all that.