Pacific Islands Monthly
The news magazine of the South Pacific · since 1930
Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 August 1949Vol. XX, No. 1

New Co. For Ng Gold Leases

p. 22 · Read in the full issue

Page 2222

MR. F. A. ROBERG returned to Mel bourne from New Guinea in July and recommended that Gold Pros pecting and Development NL should exercise its option over Yonki and Oma pinka leases.

A new company will be formed to acquire these areas.

The company has applied for a lease of 40 acres on which a lode formation has been discovered. Pan prospects from sur face to present depth of trench, 9 ft., are very encouraging, the company states.

Representative samples have been sent for assay.

There are nine doctors practising in Papeete, a town of some 11,000 people.

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