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Goldfields
From Our Own Correspondent WAU, Oct. 4.
NEW Guinea’s “London Relief Fund Appeal” has received £1,618 from the goldfields. This splendid response follows the £1,050 raised for a goldfields ambulance for the A.I.F. There is no doubt about the goldfields, when it comes to giving.
A public meeting was held in Wau on September 29, to consider the appoint ment of trustees to handle and co-ordin ate all future monies raised here for patriotic purposes.
The following were elected to represent Wau and confer with delegates from out stations; Major H. Taylour, Messrs. K. B.
Gross, W. G. Mitchell, D. Vertigan and J.
A. Bretag.
Mr. and Mrs. Baden Jones, of Rabaul, T.N.G., are snending a short furlough in Melbourne. Baden, who is one of the old hands of Rabaul’s Expro. Board days, has recently been conducting a trans port business there. He has come South for a medical overhaul.