More Dredging Claims On
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Lakekamu
From Our Own Correspondent.
Port Moresby, August 3.
A further 920 acres have been taken up on the Lakekamu goldfields by Mr.
Peter Radcliffe for gold dredging claims known as Swamp Creek No. 1,2, 3 and 4, situated on Swamp Creek near Casso wary Creek.
Interest in the abandoned claims of the Astrolabe has been revived since the suc cessful venture of Mr. A. Christie. It is reported that among other claims two have been taken up by a resident of Port Moresby, one of which is already under option to a large mining concern.
Mr. F. Whitlock, of Lever’s Pacific Plantations Pty. Ltd., West Bay, Solomon Islands, returned to S.I. by the Malaita from Sydney on August 26.
Captain van Stevennick, a Dutch army pilot, has been selected to lead an air expedition to chart the unexplored regions of Dutch New Guinea from the air. The party, consisting of 25 Europeans and 25 natives, with three De Havilland ’planes, will leave at the end of September for Manokwari, the main centre in the Nor thern Division of Dutch New Guinea.