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Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 November 1952Vol. XXIII, No. 4

[?]Gd Sells No. 3 Dredge

p. 139 · Read in the full issue

>ULOLO Gold Dredging Ltd. have ; sold their No. 3 Dredge to itish Consolidated Goldfields Ltd., itish Guiana. This is one of the

original Dredges which BGD im ported 20 years ago, and recon ditioned after the war. It will be shipped to British Guiana by a specially chartered vessel, MV Winck, due to leave Lae on December 10.

The approximate weight of the dismantled dredge is 1500 tons, all of which has been shipped to Lae by BGD Diesel trucks. No. 3 closed down in May, 1951, due to rising costs and diminishing dredging areas*