New Goldfields in New

Guinea Report of Sepik Discovery

NEWSPAPER reports, liberally head lined “Prospector is King of Wild Natives” in the Australian newspapers early in June, described how Mr. Mick Leahy, 36-years-old prospector and ex plorer, is “the only white man in the Wahgi region, on the Mount Hagen plateau, 8,000 feet up, in the centre of New Guinea”. It was stated that Mr.

Leahy has discovered gold close to the foot of Mount Hagen (13,000 feet) and employs over 200 Wahgi natives to work his claims.

It was stated in the same newspaper article that reports have been received in New Guinea of the discovery of a new goldfield near the headwaters of the Sepik River, close to the Dutch border.

It was said that the new discovery was of “considerable importance”, but no de tails are given. The report may be cor rect; but it has all the earmarks of flapper press sensationalism.