News Notes from the Goldfields
pp. 103-104 · Read in the full issue
Goldfields
WAU, March 15.
PHESE photographs below show (1) the new District Office at Wau which has been built on its pre-war site, he building is not at this date occupied, fecessary equipment has not come to and. (2 1 The timberyards of New Guinea Oldfields Ltd. at Wau; and (3> a con >y of NGG trucks setting out from Wau > Lae with 15 tons of sawn timber.
n January the NGG sawmill produced ,193 super feet of pine. In the same nth 119 tons of sawn timber were sent Lae by road and 45 tons of commercial ight were backloaded from Lae. n February 178 666 super feet of pine *e sawn and sent to the stacks. During ,t month 97 tons of timber were trans ted to Lae and there were 62 tons backloading from Lae to Wau.
Vau was visited by the Federal Presi lt of the RSSAILA, Mr. George [land, on March 10. He was accom lied by Mr. J. Nagle, Federal Secretary the League. On the evening of their ival they addressed a meeting of local irned servicemen on soldier settlement 1 War Service Homes in the Territory, I the proposed and postponed Wau h School. astor Kuder, Superintendent of the heran Mission in New Guinea, ciated at a dedication of Lutheran ision enterprises in Wau on March 13. •t a children’s matinee held in Wau in ly March, £2O was raised for the pro ed new pre-school play centre. The nan Catholic Church in Wau was used the first time on March 11 when her Bachus travelled from Lae for occasion.
March 10 Judge Kelly and Crown Prosecutor O’Driscoll visited Wau— one case being a native sent to goal indecent exposure. ‘he Lutheran Mission have been hi ring into the re-building of their irch which existed here before the • If they build we will have three irches in Wau. A religious mining nnunity?
The first meeting of the Wau Advisory Council was opened by Assistant District Officer H. P. Seale on March 16.
A Games and Cards Evening was held at the Wau Club on March 17 for the benefit of the new Pre-School Play Centre. The sum of £173 18 0 was netted.
Easter found Wau with the “House Full” sign in most homes. The Hotel was fully booked with visitors from Madang.
Lae and Port Moresby—the Lae Levien Sports Team visited Wau that week-end also and went home the winners of the Levien Trophy. The cricket match was evenly contested and lasted two days, Lae winning only with the last batsman
at the wicket. Lae won at tennis and snooker and Wau won the billards match.
On Easter Saturday the Wau Club was the scene of the Sports Club Ball; and on Easter Monday the Wau Hotel held a fancy dress party.
The Wau Golf Course was appreciated by the visitors to the town, and an invi tation fourball was staged for them on Good Friday.
On the afternoon of March 29 a cards afternoon was held at the Wau Club to help raise funds for the Roman Catholic Church Building Fund.
During March the principal mechanical units of the Crusher-Conveyor-Battery
section of the New Golden Ridges Amal gamation Mill were run in and the pocket bin filled in preparation for starting up during April. Full-scale production of 100 tons per day is not expected until June 1. , . .
During the month a record amount of 146 tons of timber were carried to Lae by diesel lorries and 106 tons of company and commercial freight was back-loaded to Wau.
Also during March 25,000 super feet of selected pine flitches were shipped to Brisbane, for the exclusive use of the Australian battery separator industry, and it is expected that a further 75,000
super feet will be shipped during the next quarter.
Tentative inquiries have been made by the Government Stores for the supply of 2,000 prefabricated Cedar chairs of the “Manus” type. This type of chair has been common to the Islands for many years and is essentially a light comfort able rest chair.
Mr. H. W. Simmonds, OBE, formerly Government Entomologist in Fiji, arrived in the Colony this month, to make a collection of entomological material in Taveuni for the Natural History section of the British Museum, London.