Bgd's Field Manager Goes
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Abroad
MR. JOHN D. SIMPSON,- field man ager in New Guinea for Bulolo Gold Dredging Ltd., left Sydney by air on August 5 for USA. He will confer with BGD directors and officials at the head office in Vancouver (Canada) on th,e progress of BGD’s rehabilitation plans and its future programme. Mr. Simpson will return to the Territory in November.
Before he left New Guinea, Mr.
Simpson saw BGD’s seventh dredge, a deep-digger, begin operations on June 26.
The fifth dredge commenced work last January and the sixth in April.
During June, BGD dredges treated 893,000 cubic yards of material for a recovery of 7,678 oz. of fine gold. This compared with the previous two months as follows: Apl. May June Cubic yards (1,000 s) .. .. 595 740 893 Gold, oz. fine 4,760 5,766 7,678 Output for the year ended May 31, 1948, was 75,094 oz. of fine gold (worth over £A750,000), from 7,855,000 cubic yards.
A son was born on June 7. in Dunedin, to Mr. and Mrs. Peter Wichman. Mr.
Wichman is the eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. T. Wichman, of Black Rock, Raro tonga; and the young couple were married in Rarotonga nearly two years ago.