Papuan Gold

\ CLAIM that he has found and pegged a promising gold-bearing area on the Vanapa River (which flows into Redscar Bay, a few miles west of Port Moresby) was made by Captain A. J. Kendrick, who arrived in Sydney from Papua by the February Montoro. Captain Kenrick is acting on behalf of a Dutch syndicate.

Mr. Marcel Henry Pinguet, of Messrs.

Burns Philp & Co.’s staff, Rabaul, died on January 27, after a short illness. Mr.

Pinguet, who went to the Territory in 1932 from Hong Kong, will be sadly missed, for he was of a cheerful dis position and sunny personality. He left a widow and two children.