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Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 June 1953Vol. XXIII, No. 11

Plywood To Replace

p. 143 · Read in the full issue

Gold Dredges

OY the time the plywood mills & were operating, early next year, and despite the fact that =e number of dredges is being re nced, the population of Bulolo wnship, in the Morobe district of ew Guinea, would be 450 Euro sans and 1,400 natives, the man ring director of Bulolo Gold “edging Ltd. (Mr. F. W. Godden) Jld the Brisbane newspapers in ay.

The Co. will commence sluicing, addition to dredging, in the :iley soon, he said. The life of the jldfield, however, is not calculated more than 10 more years. Pro iction and profits from gold min ;g will decline from June next, iree dredges are expected to close the next two years, but two large •edges should operate until 1962 1963.