Gold In Eastern

Papua

Letter to the Editor.

THE article by Mr. Henry Dexter, appearing in your issue of November, says that the reports of finds of gold and platinum on the old Gibarra Goldfields, in Papua, are not true.

As Mr. Dexter has not gone to the trouble to crpss Milne Bay to see this for himself, but is going mostly on the talk of others, he does not know much about it, first hand.

I have been prospecting this area for the last 4½ years, and have opened up the old Samarai Gold Development mine, which has since been floated into a com nany. At present. I have several ore

bodies opened up, in width from 6in. to 50ft., and carrying gold from sdwts. to 5oz. to the ton. These are not only my own estimates but also from assays taken by independent mining enquiries and taken to Sydney for assay. These lodes are now ready for the installation of machinery to go ahead and become pay ing concerns. They are certainly not for the small syndicate, but for companies with a fairly large capital, which are pre pared to put in machinery. Ground has been tested for platinum, and found to go sdwts. to the cubic yard.

If Mr. Dexter wishes to verify this, let him take a trip across Milne Bay and take samples for himself.

Gibarra,

I am, etc.,

Louis Garden.

Milne Bay, Papua, 22/12/’33.

A Marine Village In Papua.

—Photo, by courtesy of “Missionary Review.”