Good-Bye To G.M.O.P.!
pp. 59-60 · Read in the full issue
Prom Our Own Correspondent
Misima, Dec. 18.
THE operations of Gold Mines of Papua on this island are now practically finished. Mr. Roy Saker, who was one or the men left here by the Co. when it ceased its main operations in August, departed on November 29, and we under stand that the three or four men still re maining will be withdrawn almost im mediately.
Thus there conies to an end an enter prise on which a very large sum of money has been spent and which, some three years ago, was believed to be one of the most promising gold mines in the South Seas.
Mr. Austral Verge, who had spent a large proportion of his 92 years in Fiji, died recently in a Sydney private hos pital. He owned a number of properties on the island of Vanua Levu.
Mr. Dan Williams, who had carried on business in Fiji for 40 years as an iron founder, died in the Colonial War Mem orial Hospital, Suva, in December, aged 73.
Rev. Henry Holland, of Sangara, Papua, one of the veterans of the New Guinea Mission, was spending furlough in Sydney early in January.