N. Caledonia Asbestos

Deposits May Be Developed

TWO New Caledonian prospectors, M.

Sylvestre Leconte and M. Louis Mon tagnat, have found a deposit of amiant, a variety of asbestos, in the vicinity of the Diahot River, the largest and most northerly stream in the island.

New Zealand mining men have made a special trip to see the deposit, and have reported favourably.

There now seems a possibility that it will be exploited, although it has long been known that there was asbestos in the north of the Colony and sqme fine speci mens—looking like sections of withered tree-trunks—are in the collection of the Government chemist in Noumea. Once, towards the close of last century, British and Australian capital turned the north into a mining area noted for copper, gold and silver-lead, but it has since become depopulated, although a variety of mineral deposits are known to exist, including ores of some of the rarer metals.

Mrs. Ivy Corfe, formerly of Wau, New Guinea and now of Sydney had a serious accident several months ago at Mascot aerodrome where she is employed. Fall ing sheets of fibro-cement injured her legs and only recently has she been able

to get around again.