Solomon Is. Gold

Discoveries in Guadalcanal

CONVINCED that there is payable gold in Guadalcanal, Mr. P. Courtney re turned to Sydney in October from the Solomon Islands, where, with Mr. Tom Waters, a veteran mining engineer, he has been prospecting for some months.

Mr. Courtney said that he had pene trated deep into Guadalcanal and had proved that, though no definite reef for mations had been located, every water way in a large area contained alluvial gold. The area they examined was only 15 miles from the coast, but owing to the dense jungle and broken limestone coun try they painfully traversed 60 miles to get there. Mr. Waters became sick and had to be carried out on a stretcher.

Further developments are likely. Mr.

Courtney said he had been given every assistance by the Solomon Islands Ad ministration.