Continued Growth of Fiji
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Goldfield
IT was reported recently in Suva that it is confidently anticipated that Vatukoula goldfield (Tavua, Northern Fiji) will this year produce gold worth £1,000,000 Fijian—thus taking definite second place to the sugar industry in the scale of Fijian production.
The three mines on the goldfield, which are under the control of Mr. F.
G. Theodore, are Emperor, Loloma and Dolphin, and between them they employ 1,700 men.
The goldfield now is a hive of activity.
Everything is operated by electric power derived from Tavua Power Pty., Ltd., and the most modern equipment is being in stalled. For example, over 100 carpenters are working under European supervision in the carpentry and furniture shops.
The little town is spreading constantly, as ever more new cottages are erected for the various staffs. There are three com munities—Europeans, Euronesians and Fijians.
The establishment of this great gold in dustry, within a period of five or six years, is one of the romances of the South Seas.
Mr. D. G. Tomblings, C.M.G. M.A., arrived in Fiji recently to be headmaster of the Queen Victoria School for Boys.
Since 1925 he had been principal of Makerere College, Uganda, in East Africa.
Rev. K. L. Newman and Miss Bessie Smith, of the New Guinea Mission, were married in Queensland during their re cent furlough. They have now returned to Papua and are stationed at Eforo.