Sandy Creek Co.

THE annual report of Sandy Creek Gold Sluicing, Ltd., a New Guinea com pany which ceased operations when the Japs invaded in January, 1942, shows a loss of £217 on the year. The company has over £lOO,OOO invested in its Sandy Creek and Watut leases; expects to receive war damage compensation; and has about £21,000 on hand wherewith to resume operations. The directors are Messrs. H. B. Jamieson, H. G. Hyde, J.

W. Hinks and A. J. Smeaton.

Mr. T. W. Brighouse, well-known and popular planter of Nu’u Plantation, Western Samoa, recently received word r that his eldest son, Private Rex Brig ‘ house, has been killed in action while serving with the New Zealand Forces in Italy. Private Rex Brighouse had been wounded previously. He had been living in New Zealand for the past ten years and leaves a wife and two children.