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Notes From The Ng

Goldfields

From Our Own Correspondent WAU, August 15.

J’R. And Mrs. John Grain

-1 GER are the proud parents of Jonathan Paul, who was bom the Wau Hospital on August 4.

Mr. and Mrs. Grainger are soon depart for Moresby and will be .ssed in this community.

Mr. Grainger has proved a fine irtsman and a capable and un rstanding Police Officer. He has en the recipient of suitable tokens >m the Wau Sports Club and the au Golf Club.

On August 1 Mr. Justice Kelly companied by Mrs. Kelly arrived Wau.

Judge Kelly dealt with two .minal cases and as a result a tive was sentenced to 9 months prisonment for insulting a Euro m woman at Bulolo, and a second tive was imprisoned for 3 years • tampering with letters in the au Post Office. rhe Assistant District Officer has w moved into his new office which in a group of fine modem build js, which may well come into the est in the Territory” class. [R. PAUL HASLUCK, our new Territories’ Minister, arrived in Wau by road from Lae on gust 3, after visiting Mr. Mick ahy’s farm at Zenag, the Gov iment Stations at Mumeng and 1010, and Bulolo Gold Dredging i’s property. [That evening Mr. Hasluck met a mutation from the Wau Citizens’ sociation and the Wau Town uncil. Matters brought before > Minister included the Wau High 1001, the Wau Hospital, the rising >t of Native Labour, and the estion of gold royalties, rhe party left for Goroka on igust 4, and returned on 6th, en a Dragon aircraft took the nister, Mr. Lambert and Dis )t Commissioner Niall (of Lae) to ‘ new post at Menyama where Jistant-District Officer Hurrell s established a station in the Idle of the Kukukuku country.

Che Minister for Air Mr. H. L. thony, accompanied by Mrs. An >ny, Air Vice-Marshall Williams i Mrs. Williams, and Mr. J. }hur, of DCA, paid Wau a very ef visit on July 28, [R. J. CROMIE (Port Moresby) and Mr. D. Jones (Rabaul) are at present in Wau appear : in the Supreme Court in con ation with the electrocution of ward J. Kuhl at Wau last year. . Justice Kelly is hearing the >e.

Jr. W. Orr, accompanied by his e, is visiting Wau at present. Mr.

Orr represents southern interests which purchase Klinki pine from New Guinea Goldfields for the making of battery separators.

Fox Movietone cameraman Syd Wood spent a week in Wau this month. During his visit he had re-acted the discovery of gold in Edie Creek T to , * -rn

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which included Mr A Malcolm and Mr. C. Eldred—both old-timers of this area.

The Returned Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Association held their An-

nual Ball on August 4 at the Wau Club. This year it took the form of a Fancy Dress Ball. Mr. and Mrs. Jim Harridge won the prize as ar Li nc , sqiiaw . „ 6 Golden Ridges Club was Offi cially opened on the evening of August by Mr. J. Hohnen, general manager of New Guinea Goldfields.

This is the first post-war Club to be formed at Ridges, an offshoot of Va . u ’ and should 156 of great benefit

t 0 the communit y-

H/|R- WEARNE of Harrison Ram- If J. say Pty. Limited has been visiting New Guinea Gold fields Wau area. Mr. Wearne is an

expert on timber production and considers the Wau pine to be emin ently suitable for specialised re quirements on the mainland.

With the arrival of the third diesel unit by the Nankin, and the fourth due shortly, New Guinea Ooldfields timber output will be

stepped up to about 200 tons per month. Present production is allo cated primarily to the New Guinea market. Only specially selected flitches are being exported to Bris bane and Sydney for the battery separator industry.

Trial shipments are now in pro

gress of fruit, milk and egg case;; (from NGG mill). These are ii much demand by Australian es porters and will be made entirely from timber that would otherwise be treated as waste.

A record load of Wau pine lefl Wau in mid-August for Lae; tin load was carried by a trailer coupled to an AEG diesel prime -mover —thi overall payload was 20,000 lb. a timber for supply to Works am Housing Department, Lae.