Early History of Fiji Gold
p. 77 · Read in the full issue
WE have received from a correspondent at Tavua, Fiji, a correction of an article which appeared in the June issue entitled “Fiji Gold —Description of Tavua Field.” The writer of the article refers to “the 30 acres which Messrs. Costello reserved for themselves when they sold the Emperor and Koroere to the Theodore Group.”
Our correspondent remarks: “This is quite wrong. The Emperor mine was originally owned by the Lololeru Private Prospecting Syndicate—the first syndicate to be formed in connection with the Tavua fields. It was comprised of three local men, i.e., Messrs. G. C. Foulis, H. L. Mor ton, and H. J. Stevens, who pegged it out in the very earliest days of the field. Subsequently this syndicate sold the Emperor to the Theodore group, retaining an inter est which they still hold.”