Extensions, changes
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for Hotel Kieta
Work began in August on a new 30-unit two-storey block addition to the Hotel Kieta, Bougainville. It will cost $lOO,OOO and lift the accom modation capacity of the eight-year old hotel from 20 to about 80 people.
Future expansion plans will also include new bar facilities and still more rooms.
Shareholding in the hotel was reshuffled earlier this year when sole owner and founder, Helmut Kroen ing, of an old German New Guinea family, sold the hotel to Hotel Kieta Pty. Ltd.
About seven people with NG interests, including Mr. Kroening and Mr. Robin McKay, former owner of Bougainville’s Aropa Plantation, have shareholdings in the company.
Until a permanent board of directors has been selected, Mr. Kroening, now living at Mosman a Sydney suburb, is temporary chairman.