N.G. Gold Shares

Recent fluctuations in the shares of three of the main gold companies operating on the Morobe gold field, New Guinea, were as follows:

Major F. Hewitt, general manager of Lever’s Pacific Plantations Ltd., left Sydney by the Macdhui on July 25 to make a tour of inspection of the Lever plantations in Papua, New Guinea, and the Solomon Islands. He will be absent for about two months.

Prince Karl Leopold von Schoenburg Walden burg, who is related to most of the Royal families of Europe, arrived in Syd ney from Italy by the Corfu on July 25.

After a week's sightseeing in New South Wales, he left by the Makura on August 1 to spend several months in Tahiti.

Rev. R. Pillion, of the Marist Mission station at Lano, Wallis Island, in the Vicariate Apostolic of Central Oceania, arrived in Sydney by the Laperouse from Noumea on July 27. With other Marist missionaries, who recently arrived in Sydney from their stations in the South Seas, he attended the Provincial Chapter of the order on August 5.

Bulolo G.D. N.G. Ltd.

Placer Co.

June 1 .. .. .. b £9/4/6 .. b5/2 .. b£27/9/- June 8 .. .. .. s£9/3/- .. b5/4 .. b£28 Tune 15 .. .. b£9/5/- .. b5/6 .. b £28/14/- June 22.. .. .. s£9/9/- .. b5/3 .. b £29/15/- June 29.. .. .. s £9/8/- .. b5/5 .. b £32/12/6 July 6 .. .. b £9/2/- .. b5/6 .. b£33/5/- July 13 .. .. .. b£8/13/- .. b5/2 .. b£31 July 20 .. .. .. s£9 .. b5/5 .. b £31/17/6 July 27 .. .. .. s£8/19/- .. b6/2 .. b£31/15/- August 3 .. s£8/15/- .. b6/9 .. b £31/17/6 August 10 .. .. s £8/2/6 .. b6/8 .. b £31/10/- August 17 .. .. s£8/15/- .. b6/ll .. b£6/S/-* * Placer Development Co.’s shares are now quoted on the as previously. basis of one dollar, instead of hve