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Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 August 1948Vol. XIX, No. 1

New Guinea Scholarship Fund

pp. 33-34 · Read in the full issue

DONATIONS to the New Guinea Mem

orial Scholarship Fund, since the

subscription list was last published, have been as follows: — Acknowledged to June 30 £3,538 3 1 Anonymous, Rabaul 250 Mr. and Mrs. W. M. English, Talasea, TNG 220 New Guinea miner, Namatanai,

Tng 500

£3,547 10 1

The new Fiji Government Printer, Mr. F. Stansfield, has arrived in the Colony. He was formerly Government Printer, Trinidad.

Mr. Reg. Cooper, prospector with Bulolo Gold Dredging Ltd., arrived in Sydney from New Guinea in June on three months' furlough. On the Morobe field now, BGD has six dredges at work, he said; Sunshine Gold Development Ltd. recently went into production, sluicing; and New Guinea Goldfields Ltd. is carry ing on its regular operations, with Koranga Gold Sluicing Ltd. tributing for it. The Sandy Creek Gold Sluicing Co.

Ltd, has also reached the production stage. Mr. Cooper is staying in the Western Suburbs, Sydney, with his sister, Matron Green.