Bulolo Gold Dredging Limited
p. 52 · Read in the full issue
FOR the. month of January seven dredges, working in the Bulolo Val ley, New Guinea, handled 881,081 cubic yards of gravel for a total recovery of approximately 5,057 ounces of fine gold.
The directors of Solomon Islands Rubber Plantations, Ltd. (a* £77,000 company operating in BSD report that they are now proceeding steadily with the work of rehabilitation and, in their last financial year, they were able to sell 95 tons of copra at an average of £34 per ton. The plantations became badly overgrown during the war, but between 300 and 400 acres have now been cleared.