"Just A Miner"
p. 63 · Read in the full issue
TN our January issue we published a * personal paragraph stating that ‘‘Mr.
J. A. Thurston and Mr. M. P. Curtain, Australian mining engineers, who have been prospecting in the Wewak area, Northern New Guinea, had returned to
the Territory from Sydney to continue their activities.”
Mr. Thurston has now written to us, asking that we correct this paragraph.
He says: ‘‘You mention by name with Mr. Curtain’s as ‘Australian mining en gineers.’ Mr. Curtain is a mining engin eer, but I am just a miner.”
Both these gentlemen are well-known in
New Guinea. Mr. Curtain is in charge of the field operations of Wewak Gold Estates N.L.. of which Mr. Thurston is a director. The latter also is working a gold claim near the property which W.G.
Estates are testing.
Mr, and Mrs. E. B. Bignold and their two children departed from Sydney for
Port Moresby after furlough by the
Macdhui on April 28. Mr. Bignold is Crown Law Officer in Papua.