“Important As Tavua”
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Dr. Loftus Hills’ View of Yanawai Goldfield
WORK done on the Yanawai goldfield on ™ Vanua Levu, Fiji, during the last six months indicates that it will probably be as important a field as Tavua, according to an opinion expressed by Dr. Loftus Hills, consulting mining geologist to a number of Fijian companies, who arrived in New Zealand in mid-July by the Monowai. en route to Australia.
“Although discovered before Tavua, its development has not been so rapid,” said Dr. Hills. “But the stage has now been reached where an estimate of the possibili ties and extent, of the field could be ipade.”
Dr. Hills added that the area was more difficult to prospect than the Tavua field, as it was situated in the rainy district and was covered with heavy jungle. The lodes were similar to those of Tavua.
Miss Edith Twyford, who recently com pleted a course in anthropology at the George Brown College, Sydney, will shortly return to Papua to resume her work for the Methodist Missionary Society.