High Commissioner’S Visit
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To The Solomons
From a Special Correspondent
Aola (8.5.1.), Aug. 2.
High Commissioner for the Western Pacific (Sir Arthur Richards) arrived at Guadalcanal on July 6 in H.M.B. Leith. He was met by the Resi dent Commissioner (who had arrived earlier in the Tulagi ) and by the District Officer (Mr. L. Wright).
Large numbers of natives from the hill country of Guadalcanal and surrounding villages, had assembled; and, after an official inspection of the station had been made, His Excellency was entertained with some very fine native dancing.
The High Commissioner left, later, for Berande, where he intended to inspect the gold mines, situated in the hilly country on Guadalcanal. There is a lot of prospecting going on there, some good finds are said to have been made in the rough portions of Lion’s Head, a high mountain, reaching to an altitude of about 8,000 feet, some 20 miles at the back of Berande. After the first 12 miles, there would be some difficult walking through broken and rocky country.