In Fiji

Nasivi (Fiji) Syndicate N.L.

Advice has been received from the representa tive of Nasivi (Fiji) Syndicate N.L., in Fiji, indi cating that be has secured an option over a promising property. The lode where opened up shows an average width of 10 to 12 feet. Pan samping over 250 feet along the lode has given satisfactory values. In addition to the above, negotiations are proceeding for another property.

The company’s engineer and geologist recently left Sydney for Fiji and will carry out a geological survey and assays are all ore, and also direct the prospecting policy of the syndicate on the pro perty under option.

Loloma West Ltd.

Advice has been received by the management of Loloma West Ltd. that the Hon. H. Ragg, of Suva, has been nominated as director of the company in Fiji, and that 200 shares reserved for Fiji applications have been subscribed. The com pany has been granted prospecting rights, and the field representative is now on the properties.

The Co. has acquired options over 500 acres of land at Drumasi, on the eastern Tavua gold field, on which developments show three gold-bearing lodes and 500 acres at Momi Bay. Additional miners are being sent to Fiji to supervise de velopment work.

Mr. A. J. Phillips, manager in Melbourne of Loloma West Ltd., has received a copy of a new agreement made between Messrs. R. H. Roskelly and C. F. Michell, varying the terms of option to purchase prospecting licence No. 221, Tavua, Fiji.

The old purchase price of £7000 cash has been reduced to £1000 cash, but 5 per cent, fully paid shares in any company formed has been substituted as compensation for the reduced cash.

Sukulaki Gold Development

Sukulaki Gold Development N.L. has been formed to acquire an option over an application for a prospecting licence, No. M.B. 42/34, on the Tavua field, Fiji, known as the Sukulaki area, covering approximately 494 acres, and to systematically test and prospect the area. The area is approxi mately two miles due east of the Emperor lease.

Only a small portion of the area has so far been prospected, but from loaming payable gold has been obtained. The area embraces the andesite formation, in which the payable gold-bearing lodes on the Tavua field are found. Large outcrops of quartz occur adjacent to the payable learnings.

In one trench a reef has been opened up, dis closing 13 dwt. values. The area has been ex amined by an expert, and recommended as a property worthy of vigorous development. Capi tal is £30,000, in 3000 shares of £10 each, of which 2000 shares paid up to £2 (application and allotment) have been underwritten by Messrs.

Wallace H. Smith and Co., of Melbourne, and Messrs. C. H. Smith and McCaghern, of Sydney.

The directors are Messrs. W. H. Smith, H. C.

Tucker and R. B. Randell. The legal manager is Mr. H. Smith, 360 Collins Street, Melbourne.

Aloha Central G.M.

The following party left Sydney on May 1 by the Mariposa for Fiji on behalf of Aloha Central Gold Mines N.L.: Dr. Loftus Hill, who has been retained to advise and report upon the work to be done on the company’s property at Tavua; Mr. G. Baker (mine manager), Mr. P. H. Philippe (assayer), Mr. J. T. Rowe (foreman), and three working miners. Mr. G. Baker had been for 28 years on the west coast of Tasmania, as under ground manager of the Hercules and Rosebery

mines for Electrolytic Zinc Co. of Aust. Ltd. He was for six years connected with Kauri Freehold Gold Estates, New Zealand, one of his workmen on this occasion being Mr. Borthwick, who is credited as being the discoverer of the Tavua field.

It is announced that the company has secured an option over 348 acres, covered by Prospecting Licence No. 216 issued to W. B. Ragg, at Tavua, Fiji. This property will be prospected vigorously, jointly with the 30-acre block over which an-option has been acquired from Mr, P. Costello.

Loloma Gold Mines

The management of Loloma Gold Mines N.L., Tavua, Fiji, has been advised by Mr. T. R.

Victor, mining engineer, and a director of the company, that he check sampled the lode in No. 1 shaft from 15 to 20 feet and assays made in Sydney gave an average return of 16oz. 12 dwt.

The average of the samples taken by Mr. Victor and the mine manager is therefore 28oz. 6 dwt. a ton. Tellurides are showing freely in the ore, which is almost wholly sulphide. Mr. Victor also check sampled the lode in No. 2 shaft from 15 to 20 feet, and his assays returned 6oz. a ton. Ore in this shaft is about one-half sulphide. The lode in both No. 1 and No. 2 shafts has gone into the footwall, and shafts have now been turned on to the underlay.

The Co. later reported the following assay re sults: Sixty tons of ore stacked at creek, partly from outcrop, south side of creek, where adit is commenced, but mainly from loose ore taken by mine manager from bed of creek. Three samples taken by mine manager averaged 12oz. a ton; hanging wall section, No. 1 shaft, 17 feet from sur face, 5 feet width, assay 58 oz. a ton; No. 2 shaft, 22 feet deep, hanging wall section, 5 feet width, 9½ oz. a ton; 2 feet on footwall, 2oz. a ton; and boulders in creek, 300 feet upstream from outcrop, assay ½oz. a ton. No. 3 shaft, at 36 feet, is not yet in the lode.

Aloha Alluvials N.L.

Directors of Aloha Alluvials N.L. have engaged Mr. E. T. Lewis to go to Fiji and test thoroughly by boring, pitting, or otherwise the extensive alluvial areas on the upper and lower Waimanu River and Waidamu River, over which rights are held by Aloha Syndicate G.M. N.L. Mr. Lewis has been instructed to engage in Australia com

petent men as assistants to accompany him and to obtain plant and equipment to take with him.

The party will leave for Fiji on May 25.

An inquiry having been made to Mr. H. Rich mond, acting legal adviser of Aloha Syndicate G.M, N.L. relative to an area of 2000 acres on the Upper Waimanu River, Viti Levu, reported to have been pegged by Mr. Borthwick, a cablegram on the subject was sent to the legal manager (Mr.

F. M. Gilder), who is in Fiji. Mr. Gilder replied that the inquiry undoubtedly referred to areas pegged out in the hill country above the head of the Upper Waimanu River. This did not infringe in any way on the rights of the com pany. The chairman of the mining board had informed him that no application had yet been lodged for the areas. The rights of the company on both rivers were for the alluvial deposits only, and did not cover reefs or lode formations. It was understood the 2000 acre area was for reefs and/or lodes. The members of the prospecting syndicate were Messrs. Borthwick, Blair, and Lawler. Mr. Borthwick had returned to Suva on May 7, but the remaining members would not return until later.

Fiji Mining Corporation

Mr. W. J. Nicol, engineer to Fiji Mining Cor poration N.L. advises that he has pegged and applied for a prospecting licence over a promising area at Yako, about four miles north-east of Momi, on the west coast of Viti Levu Island. The appli cation is receiving the consideration of the mining board. Mr. Nicol states this district is the best he has yet inspected. Arrangements have also been made to prospect vigorously P.L. No. 214, over which the company holds an option.

East Reefs (Bendigo) Nl.

Dr. A. E. Ffrost, chairman of directors of East Reefs (Bendigo) N.L., has returned from Fiji, and advises that Mr. V. Terry has applied for a prospector’s licence over 500 acres. An assay of the outcrop showed 10 dwt. Mr. T. J. Rogers In tends to apply for a similar area adjoining Terry’s application. The company has also secured an option over a property having a lode which assayed 18 dwt. a ton. This property is being resampled for check assay.

Fiji Prospecting Co.

The management of Fiji Prospecting Co. N.L.

announces that it has secured, on favourable terms, a nine months’ working option of purchase over a property in the Korolevu Bay district of Fiji, which was reported upon by Mr. A. G.

Campbell.

Rewa Prospecting Syndicate

Work carried out by Rewa Prospecting Syndi cate N.L. on the prospecting rights area in the Tavua district, Fiji, disclose several ore bodies carrying gold. Five of these ore bodies, heavily mineralised and up to 6 feet wide, traverse the area. Expert opinion, the management reports, is that they bear a striking similarity to the Koroere formation.

Gold Mines Of Fiji N.L.

Gold Mines of Fiji N.L. has been formed in Victoria to send a mining engineer to Fiji, to prospect and work options obtained by the com pany. These options include the Emperor North area, adjoining the Emperor and Loloma leases, and six other areas in the Tavua gold field.

Capital is £30,000, in 3000 shares of £10 each. Two thousand shares are being issued at £5 each. The legal manager is Mr. J. D. Morrison, Bank House, Bank Place, Melbourne.

At the preliminary meeting of shareholders held early in May Messrs. D. J. McClelland, G. R.

Clarke, D. Reid, A. Bowler, S. Wright-Smith, and F. V. Smith were appointed directors. A nominee of Sir Henry Scott in Fiji is also to be appointed to the Board. Shareholders were in formed that the directors had been unofficially advised that the application of Mr. J. C. Flemon for the Emperor North lease, over which an option is held, would be granted. Vigorous pros pecting was in progress on other leases in which the company was interested.

Later Mr. H. V. Francis, engineer, and Mr. A.

Bowler, a provisional director, sailed for Suva by the Mariposa. They went on to the field to examine Mr. Goodsir’s block and reported that it shows considerable quantities of lode matter. Ex amination of the Flemon block and the Emperor lease, which it adjoins, indicates that it is prac tically certain that the Emperor lode traverses Flemon’s block.

Kasi Development Ltd.

Kasi Development Ltd. has been registered in Sydney with a nominal capital of £30,000, in 120,000 shares of 5/- each. The objects of the company are to acquire goldmines in the Yanawai district, Fiji, and the prospecting licences held by Mount Kasi Mines Ltd. First directors: D. W. Robert son, H. M. Peacock, H. H. McNail, and G. Mit chell. Registered office: Suva, Fiji. New South Wales agent; R. V. Frazer, c/o. Craig and Frazer, 115 Pitt Street, Sydney,

Tavua Gold Developments Ltd.

One of the syndicates which was “in early” on

the Tavua field, Fiji, Tavua Gold Options Ltd,, has now been floated into a bigger company, Tavua Gold Developments Ltd., with a nominal capital of £100,000, divided into 400,000 shares of 5/- each. 180,000 shares were being offered to the public early in May. 80,000 are to be allotted to Tavua Gold Options Ltd.; 8,000 shares go to the Australian Mining Trust Ltd.; 8,000 shares ta Mineral Developments Ltd.; while 4,000 fully paid shares, as vendor’s consideration, are to go to the vendor (presumably Tavua Gold Options Ltd.).

The Australian Mining Trust and Mineral Develop ments Ltd. are each to have an option for two years over 30,000 shares at a premium of 2/6 per share, and 60,000 are to be held in reserve. The provisional directors of the new company are Sir Charles Marr (Sydney), Sir Henry Scott (Suva), Mr. H. E. Sizer (Melbourne), Mr. E. G. Banks (Melbourne), Mr. W. R. Carpenter (Sydney), Dr.

H. R. R Grieve (Sydney), and Mr. H. J. Napthali (Sydney).