Guinea Airways Ltd.
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have reported that the carriage of dredging machinery by air to the goldfields on be half of Bulolo Gold Dredging Ltd., is expected to be put in hand immediately. Two more 3-engined aeroplanes are arriving at Lae this week. One of these will be chiefly utilised for the cargo requirements of New Guinea Goldfields Ltd., while the other will be kept as a standby for the requirements of Bulolo Gold Dredging Ltd.
It is estimated that well over 3,000 tons of machinery and store's will be taken across the New Guinea mountains by these machines this year.
Pen-Friends Wanted.
Mrs. P. Greenslade, of Frances, South Aus tralia, has written that she is desirous of getting into communication with pen-friends throughout the Islands.
The Montoro on her last trip from New Guinea brought to Sydney 5,600oz. of gold.
According to a recent annual report of the Papuan Administration, New Guinea Copper Mines must have in vested half a million pounds in their efforts to develop the low grade copper deposits of the Astrolabe Mineral Field.
Their efforts would probably have been successful but for the fall in the price of copper in the post-war depression.