An Old-Timer Makes Good
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MR. GEORGE CHESTER, who served a term in a N.S.W. prison camp for injuring a native labourer, and who pluckily returned to the New Guinea gold field and started life again, is making good in a small “show” on the Lower Watut. He and his partner, A. G. Villiers, have put in 225 feet of pipeline, and are washing out a satisfactory amount of gold.
The photographs in the adjoining column show: Upper: Pipeline and race, middle: Natives at work on the claim; lower; Mr. Chester in front of his shack.
Mr. G. E. D. Sandars has been ap pointed District Officer of Malaita, in the British Solomon Islands.