Death Of Mr Les Joubert,

Tng Pioneer

fTIHE death occurred in Sydney, on Sep- JL tember 23, of Mr. Les Joubert, one of the best-known and highly esteemed of the Morobe goldfield pioneers.

He was 63 years old. Death followed an operation for appendicitis.

Mr. Joubert was in Papua before World War I. He enlisted and fought in the AIF. and had a good record. He returned to the Pacific Territories, and at -one period was a plantation manager for the Expropriation Board at Madang. But he was among the first men at Koranga Creek, after the discovery of gold in the ’twenties, and for some years he was asso ciated with the well-known pioneers— Levien, Pryke and George Arnold. Arnold and Joubert were partners on the gold field, and they remained close friends right up until Arnold’s death In Sydney, just before World War 11. Joubert was well-to-do —he made his money in the original Koranga Company.

Mr. Joubert was a member of an old Sydney family. “Joubert’s Perry,” which ran through to Figtree, is still remem bered by old Sydneyites.