Pacific Islands Monthly
The news magazine of the South Pacific · since 1930
Pacific Islands Monthly, 25 November 1937Vol. VIII, No. 4

Mr. Jack Hides

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Page 66

A GENERAL meeting of shareholders in Investors Ltd. was held in Sydney early in November, and it was unani mously decided to increase the capital of the company so as to enable it id con tinue its search for gold in Papua.

Mr. Jack Hides who led the company’s recent expedition up the Strickland River, is living at Katoomba, N.S.W.. at present. He still is in poor health, not having recovered from the effects of beri beri, which attacked his party in Central New Guinea and caused the death of his companion, David Lyall.

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