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Pacific Islands Monthly, 15 June 1940Vol. X, No. 11

Huge Gold Output

p. 39 · Read in the full issue

From Our Own Correspondent WAU, May 20. mHE amount of gold declared for A export on the Morobe Goldfields in April was 59,780 ounces, valued at £A407,533. The total value for the ten months (July 1939-April, 1940) is about £A2,500,000.

A branch of the Red Cross Society was formed recently at Samarai, East ern Papua. The following office-bearers were elected: Chairman, Hon. G. E.

Aumuller; secretary and treasurer, Mr.

G. Cadden; committee, Mesdames E. F.

Bunting, G. Aumuller, N. Izod and Messrs. R. A. Woodward, R. F. Bunting, R. Eginton.