NG Sulphur Deposits

Are Worthless

TERRITORIANS and others who have wondered why New Guinea sulphur has not already been exploited by Australia, instead of the Commonwealth importing it from Italy, were disappointed in January, when the deposits were turned down as a commercial proposition.

Mr. lan McDougall, a Sydney industrial chemist, who has just completed a sur vey for an Australian commercial syndi cate, has rejected them. He says that there just is not sufficient quantities in any of the deposits to be worthwhile.

Residents of Rabaul, who have for years had their silverware turn black, smelled the rotten-egg fumes flung out by Matupi occasionally, and seen the yellow sulphur scum upon the harbour at times, will probably refuse to believe it. But the ex perts have the final word in these things; it seems that New Guinea’s volcanoes are of no use whatsoever.

Mataika Tuicakau and Luke Tunabuna, the two Fijian athletes who completed at the Canterbury Centennial Games in Christchurch, N.Z. returned to Suva from Auckland by the T.E.A.L. flying-boat on January 16. The flying-boat’s departure from Auckland was delayed two hours to enable the two athletes, who were flying from the South Island, to catch it.

Mataika Tuicakau won the shot-put, and Tunabuna won the javelin throw.