Progress Of Fiji's

Gold Mines

SUVA, June 2.

Developments at the new gold-mine township of Vatukoula (Tavua, Vitf Levu) are steady, and even rapid.

There has been much additional building upon the surface of the ground; while, under the surface, the working of both the Emperor and Loloma mines, and of a new mine, are being constantly ex tended, and the gold output is ever in creasing.

A new bulk store at the Emperor mine has been erected. The Emperor’s new flotation plant is now in operation. The Emperor’s open cut has been deepened to 300 feet, with a deep shaft of 1,000 feet. A drainage tunnel from Matanagata to the Emperor’s open cut is under way.

A considerable number of new bungalows for the European staff have been built.

The new workings of the Dolphin Mine, which is situated about a mile from the Emperor and Loloma mines, are new down about 320 feet and satisfactory re sults are reported.

Mr. V. Neumann, manager of Gizarum plantation, recently married Miss Doris Buck, of Nundah, Queensland, at Awel kon Mission Station, Rooke Island, T.N.G.

Mr. Neumann is a native of Switzerland.

Mr. Max Pemberton, of the New Guinea inter-island motor vessel “Muliama”, was married early in May, in Rabaul, to Miss Inez Sullivan, of Cassilis, aN.S.W, After the ceremony a reception and wedding breakfast were held in the lounge of the New Guinea Club.

Mr. David Lewis died at Wau, New Guinea, on May 6, as the result of a mining accident.

Mrs. Hilda Marshall, wife of Mr. H. (“Tex”) Marshall, died in Bulolo Hospital, Morobe, T.N.G., early in May.