Mt. Sisa Goldfields

Result of Ballot

THE chairman of Mount Sisa Gold fields (Papua), N.L., Mr. W. D.

Johnston, has advised that at an extra ordinary general meeting held on January 27, and convened by Arthur H. Hill and others, it was decided to take a poll on the following resolutions. 1. That the company by ordinary resolution might remove any director at any time and appoint one in his place. 2. That a director shall resign when so requested to do by ordinary reso lution.

The poll has been taken, and the scrutineers, one of whom was Mr. Hill, have forwarded the result to the chair man. There was a majority against each resolution of, in round figures, 2,500 votes.

This, added the chairman, amounts to a vote of confidence in the direc torate.

During last year, an Assistant Dis trict Officer was permanently stationed at Buka Passage, Bougainville. Ar rangements can be now made for the despatch of drafts to Sydney and Rabaul from there, thus saving the trip to Kieta, where, previously, all business was done.