Astrolabe Field, Papua
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Renewed Interest In
From Our Own Correspondent
Pt. Moresby, April 17.
jDENEWED interest centres round the Astrolabe Mineral Field in Papua.
On April 1 four applications for mining leases were lodged with the Warden in Port Moresby, amounting in all to 610 acres. Applicants were Messrs. A. M.
Westhoven, and Alexander Christie, the leases being known as Ventura No. 1,2, 3 and 4.
Three syndicates, for exploiting the field’s resources, have recently been formed in the Territory. The field com prises a wide area, approximately 1,000 square miles, with the Astrolabe range at its southern limit. To the east it ex tends as far as Mt. Obree, on the main range.
Mandated Alluvials, No Liability, which recently exercised an option over the Moresby King Mine, near Sapphire Creek, was registered early in April as a foreign company under the local Com panies Ordinance, with Mr. R. D. Bertie, solicitor, as Public Officer in Port Moresby.
Mr. and Mrs. W. Johnston, of the Brit ish Consulate, Noumea, New Caledonia, recently received many congratulations on the birth of a daughter, Mr. P. F. Parkes, of Messrs. W. S. Tait and Co. Ltd., Islands merchants of Syd ney, made a business visit to New Cale donia and New Hebrides in April.