Islands Mining Shares

Price Of Gold

(Australian Official Quotations)

Mr. E. Sansom, formerly Assistant Dis trict Officer at Maprik, Northern New Guinea, now has a military post in Mel bourne, Victoria.

Mr. J. H. MacDonald has gone to Kavieng, New Guinea, as District Offi cer. He was DO in the Manus district, prior to his last furlough.

Mr. Ray Parer, well-known New Guinea aviator, arrived in Australia in April, after spending some weeks in Rabaul.

Fiji

Mid.-Oct.

Mid-Feb.

Mid-April.

Emperor Mines . blO/4 b!2/7 sll/- Loloma .. b23/4y 2 b26/lVz b24/3‘ Mt. Kasi .. b2/8 b3/9 b3/3 Tavua Dev . . s2d s2d. — Bulolo G.D

New Guinea

.. b£4/10/- s£5/2/- ■ b£4/13/6 Enterprise of N.G. blO/s20/blO/- Guinea Gold .,.. .. b9/9 b!2/b!2/- N.G.G., Ltd . . b2/4 bl/9V 2 bl/8y 2 Oil Search .. b3/ll b6/2 b6/4 Placer Dev .. b57/6 s71/b67/6 Sandy Creek ... .. blOVad. sl/blO^d.

Sunshine Gold .. .. blO/4 b9/6 b8/l Cuthbert’s

Papua

bl3/6 b!3/9 G.M. of Papua . . — s2d. — Mandated All. ... . b2/9 b3/10 b3/- Oriomo Oil — slO/6 b&/- Papuan Apinaipi .. b3/9 b3/3 b3/6 Yodda Goldfields .. bl/4 bl/6 bl/9

Pine Standard oz. oz.

January 1, 1940 .. .. £10/12/6 £9/14/9% February 5 £10/12/9 £ 9/15/0 V* March 4 to June 17 .. £10/13/3 £9/15/5% June 24 to July 7 £10/12/6 £9/15/0% July 8 £10/11/- £9/13/5 August 5 to Sept. 14 .. £10/12/6 £0/14/9% Sept. 21 to Dec. 31 .. £10/14/- £9/16/2 Jan. 1. 1941, to April 15 £10/14/- £9/16/2