Gold Industry.

Review Of N. Guinea

A Valuable Book.

A work of value to the historian, which will also be found indispensable by anyone who requires a practical knowledge of the present condition of the New Guinea goldfields, is “The De velopment of Gold Mining in Morobe, New Guinea,” by Harold Taylour and I. W. Morley. Mr. Taylour is the well known Mining Warden on Morobe field, and Mr. Morley is also a well-known engineer.

The book has been very carefully compiled, and it embraces the follow ing sections: history of the discovery and production of gold in Morobe, New Guinea; the geography and geology of the field, including topography, rain fall, climate, communications, timber, rock types, glacial and alluvial de posits; outline of legislation affecting the field up to the end of 1932; de scription of labour available; descrip tion of mining practices employed on the various sections of the field and by the various companies; indication of the motive power and classes of transportation available; and an out line of the present status of the gold industry in New Guinea.

In addition, there are included in the book a large number of valuable photographs, a bibliography which gives an indication of the available literature dealing with the field, and the most complete and detailed map cf the Morobe goldfield which we have yet seen.

Our copy of this book, which no man interested in the New Guinea gold in dustry can afford to be without, was obtained from the publishers, the Australian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy, and is a reprint of papers supplied to the Institute by the authors named above.