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Pacific Islands Monthly, 16 April 1940Vol. X, No. 9

N.G.G. Ltd.'s March Report

p. 74 · Read in the full issue

THE March report of New Guinea Goldfields, Ltd., issued on April 13, stated: — Edie Ck. Mill.—Operating profit, £212; pro duction, 744 fine oz. gold, 3,573 fine oz. silver, from 2,870 tons ore. Golden Ridges Mill. —Profit, £4,810; production, 1,380 oz. gold, 1,586 oz. silver, from 2,688 tons ore. Alluvial.—Profit, £7,317; production, 1,593 oz. gold, 1,134 oz. silver. Koranga Alluvials, —Profit for quarter ended March 31, £5,354. Kaili.—High values in Kaili compensated for flood damage by Bulolo River.

Mr. James Rennie, native medical practitioner, recently a star pupil of the Central Medical School, Suva, has joined up with the New Zealand forces, and now is attached to the hospital military camp near Auckland. He hopes to go overseas with the Third Echelon, attached to the base hospital. Mr. Rennie is a member of a well-known Rarotonga family, and he had a brilliant career at the Te Aute College, New Zealand, and the Suva Medical School.