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Pacific Islands Monthly, 24 September 1935Vol. VI, No. 2

Growth of Louisiade Goldfields,

p. 59 · Read in the full issue

Eastern Papua

From Our Own Correspondent.

Port Moresby, August 15.

VyDODLARK ISLAND, under the at tention of Mr. Leo Gibbons, of Gold Mines of Papua Ltd., is showing signs of re-assuming its old position as a mining centre in the Territory. It certainly looks as though the old Louisiade goldfields are coming back to their own- The European population both at Woodlark and Misima has increased, at Misima it numbers 100.

Mr. de Kantzow left Sydney by the Neptuna on September 11 for his mining interests on the Watut, New Guinea.