N.G. Goldfield Notes

From Our Own Correspondent.

WAU, Nov. 22.

THE appearance on the Kimai slopes below the “Gap” of the Salamaua- Wau road survey party’s camp, has caused some surprise among Wau resi dents, for it has not been generally known that a survey was being undertaken.

Messrs. Bergin and Ferries have been on this location for some months, it is un derstood, and they should be in Wau shortly.

As a result of the survey, the question of the building of a Salamaua-Wau road —almost as old as the goldfields them selves —has been raised again. People are wondering if a road will now be built in spite of the fact that air freights are comparatively low, and that there is a glut of fast ’planes.

Two Years For Embezzlement

At the sitting of the Supreme Court in November at Wau, R. N. Tabrett, was sentenced to two yeairs’ imprisonment with hard labour by Judge F. B. Phillips, for embezzlement while employed as manager of McGilvery’s store at Edie Creek.

Arrest Of Well-Known Miner

The arrest of W. C. Abbie, prominent Wau miner, on a charge of alleged gold stealing, has caused a sensation in the goldfields township where he has been engaged in mining for many years. The hearing in the lower court commenced at Wau on November 19, and much local interest is evident.

Four Hours In Air

On November 20 one of the Mandated Airlines’ Dragon aeroplanes was forced to turn back to Port Moresby owing to bad weather when within quarter of an hour’s flying from Wau. When the machine arrived back at Port Moresby she had been in the air for four hours.

Mr. F. R. Isom, of the Melanesian Mis sion Press, British Solomon Islands, and Mrs. Isom, will leave early in the New Year to spend a furlough in London. Their present intention is to leave Maravovo in February,