Bougainville

Promising Future

For Kupei Goldfield, Bougainville

From Our Own Correspondent.

WAU, August 16. \ PART from the consistent activity of mining on the Morobe goldfields, several prospecting areas have been ap plied for in the Bainings district, New Britain, outside the boundaries of the Talele goldfield.

Much interest is being shown in the Kupei goldfield, Kieta district, Bougain ville, where a quantity of mining machi nery has already been landed and it is anticipated that the gold yield will increase on a large scale.

The discovery of gold was reported in Bougainville in the Northern Solomons, in 1930, at Kompuma Creek, near Kupei village, at a height of 3,500 ft. Prospect ing parties within the last few years have been active in other parts of Bougain ville, and the mining industry there offers a promising future.

In the Sepik district, near Wewak. on the northern coast of the New Guinea mainland, gold continues to be won, though not in considerable quantities.