Morobe Gold
p. 29 · Read in the full issue
Prom Our Own Correspondent WAU, Jan. 24.
December, 1940, showed a gold output of 45,551 ounces, valued at £259,012 Australian, declared for export. The six months from July 1, therefore, pro duced gold worth £ A 1,585,518. Thus the £3,000,000 mark may be reached, if not passed, in the year 1940/1941.
Mr. N. Deck, of the South Sea Evan gelical Mission, Solomon Islands, is at present on furlough in Sydney.
Mr. A. C. Rapadzi, manager of the New Caledonian mining corporation, the Societe le Nickel, returned to Noumea by flying-boat in mid-January, after a visit to Australia.
Colonel J. E. Workman, Commissioner of Police in Fiji, arrived at Auckland, NZ, in January, on two months’ furlough.
He was accompanied by Mrs. Workman.
Rev. C. K. Crump and Mrs. Crump, of the NZ Presbyterian Mission in the New Hebrides, are at present spending leave in New Zealand.
Mrs. J. C. Barley, wife of the Resident Commissioner of the Gilbert and Ellice Islands Colony, paid a holiday visit to Melbourne late in January, after spend ing some time in Brisbane.
Mr. C. H. Luxmore, of Buka Passage, New Guinea, has returned to his home after spending a long holiday in Queens land.