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Pacific Islands Monthly, 26 May 1937Vol. VII, No. 10

New Bulolo Dredge

p. 6 · Read in the full issue

Seven Now at Work or On Order

/~iN May 20, Mr. L. V. Waterhouse, technical director of Bulolo Gold Dredging Ltd., placed an order with Messrs. Poole and Steele, Sydney, for the hull and ship structure for No. 7 dredge.

It will be a replica of No. s—a5 —a large deep-digger.

The B.G.D. fleet of dredges is now as follows: Nos. 1, 2 and 3. —Now operating on Bulolo flats. Medium diggers.

No. 4.—Operating at Bulwa (north end of Bulolo flats). Medium digger.

No. 5. —Now being erected on Bulolo flats. Deep digger (80 feet).

No, 6. —Small dredge, now being con structed in Sydney and shipped to New Guinea, for work on area recently ac quired from Bulolo Deposits Ltd., near Wau. Replica of dredge at Asnazu, Colombia.

No. 7. —Just ordered, for Bulolo flats.

Replica of No. 5.