Rumour Of Gold
p. 14 · Read in the full issue
Solomons are Ready to Rush
From Our Own Correspondent.
TULAGI, February 10.
HUSH-HUSH rumours of a gold-find are going the rounds, and a section of the community stands trembling, with its front toe dug well into the ground, ready to make a blind rush to the scene of golden promise.
If there really is fire under the smoke, there will be little need of the proposed retrenchment in Administrative circles for two reasons: (1) that it will be un necessary, and (2) it will be voluntary.
Even the merest promise of gold at a 75 per cent, premium (to say nothing of copra rushing back to a payable figure) is, to say the least, “thrilling”—as the flapper puts it. So perhaps it will be excusable if we prematurely sling our hats in the air and forget the woes of the world for a spasm.