No Timber Grants To

Ngg Ltd.

Why The Differentiation?

From a Special Correspondent WAU, Jan. 5.

THE new crushing-mill at Golden Ridges, planned for a capacity of 100 tons per day, should get going early in this New Year, and this should add considerably to the revenues of New Guinea Goldfields Ltd.

NGG Ltd. is still active in the timber industry, and it has been asked by the Government to quote for the pre-fabri cation of two and three-bedroomed houses, for Port Moresby.

Wau people had hoped that NGG Ltd. would in some way have been admitted, with Bulolo Gold Dredging Ltd. to the new organisation, which is going to ex ploit the vast timber resources of this area in the next 50 years; but there is no word of it in the Minister’s statement (See page 97).

NGG have a good timber-cutting plant and good management, and are eager tc engage in the timber business. Why should BGD be chosen, and NGG ex cluded? It seems curiously unfair.

The Morris Hedstrom University Scholarship for 1951 has been awarded tc William F. Wildin of Lautoka, Fiji. He is an ex-pupil of St. Felix School and Marisi Brothers High School in Suva; in 1939-5( he was at Gatton Agricultural College ir Queensland and now intends to do Agri cultural Science at Queensland University