Morobe (Ng) Miners
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AWAIHI (NZ) mining contractor, Mr.
W. Lee, who was employed at the Golden Ridges mine at Wau, New Guinea, experienced two air-raids there.
He travelled by air from Wau to Port Moresby, and then to New Zealand.
Referring to former Waihi residents, who have been in New Guinea for some years, Mr. Lee said that Mr. E. Johnson was now in Australia, and that Mr.
James Delaney, prior to the air-raids, was working an alluvial claim on the Bulolo River.
“The last I saw of him,” added Mr.
Lee, “was when he was on his way to Salamaua as a member of the New Guinea Volunteer Rifle Corps.” Another well-known Waihi resident. Mr. W.
Rudd, was now in Sydney. Mr. George Bellamy, a Karangahake miner, who experienced the first enemy air-raid at Lae, had also gone to Sydney.—“ New Zealand Herald”.