Edie Creek Goldfields

News

Two new gold finds are reported, one by Ned Rowlands at the headwaters of the Ramu River, and the other by “Bill” Anderson, at Black Cat Creek.

The latter is a fairly big find and about thirty miners have pegged out claims.

It promises a few months work and will be of much assistance to the men who have been idle for so long.

Guinea Airways Ltd., one of the best organised and managed concerns in this country, will be in full operation again within the next two months. Two new Junker planes, fitted with three Hornet G. 31 engines, are due to arrive on December 13. These planes were specially purchased to handle the heavy hydraulic and dredging machinery for Bulolo Gold Dredging Ltd. This machinery is expected to arrive in December.

The existing fleet of Guinea Airways comprises three Junker all-steel planes, I with Bristol Jupiter engines, two Moths I and a Widgeon. The Junker planes have given wonderful service, as witness No. 1’s 886 trips with but one forced landing and no accidents.

The popular Captain H. McGilvery, acting manager for Guinea Airways during the absence of Mr. Alan Cross, and the Company’s chief pilot, was married last month at Salamoa to Miss Jean Mitchell, daughter of Mr. W G Mitchell, manager of Burns Philp and Co.’s branch at Salamoa.