Progress for August

N.G. Goldfields Ltd.

Progress for August ’Flu Hinders Work

NEW Guinea Goldfields Ltd. have

advised that the following pro

gress report for August has been

issued by the Mining Trust Ltd., con

sulting engineers for the company:

During the month all work was hindered by a serious outbreak of influenza, from which at one time over 75 per cent. of the native labour force was incapacitated. Health conditions on the field are now normal.

Development: Location 3, the west drift was advanced lift, to a total length of 1.046 ft.

The average assay was 6.25 dwt. gold and 20 oz. silver per ton, over a width of 20 ins.

The full width of the ore had not been ex posed.

Location 8, No. 2 level, the drift was ad vanced 26ft. to a total length of 121 ft. The average assay was 6.4 dwt. gold and 7 oz. silver per ton over a width of 47 inches.

Location 22, No. 1 drift was advanced 8ft. to a total of 913 ft. The average assay was 1.6 dwt. gold and 18 oz. silver per ton, over a width of 22 inches.

Plant erection: Satisfactory progress has been made with the erection of the power plant. Clearings for transmission lines to the plateau and to the mill site have been completed, and poles for the line to the nlateau have been erected.