Sandy Creek Gold Sluicing
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The Sandy Creek Gold Sluicing Limited advise that during August, 1954, appproxi mately 44 oz 10 dwt of gold were re covered from 2,600 cubic yards of material treated on their Morobe, NG, leases.
If Mr. and Mrs. Wallace Brown of Torokina, Bougainville Island arrived in Melbourne in the liner Strathnaver recently on their way home from a seven months’ tour of England and the Continent. Mrs Wallace, who is one of the few women in New Guinea to hold a licence which permits her to recruit native labour, has lived on Bougain ville for 14 years. The Browns will be back on their plantation in November.
If Mr. W. J. L. Philpott, after 44 years service with Morris Hedstrom.
Ltd., in Tonga and Fiji, retired at the end of August in Suva. Mr Philpott was born in Fiji, his father having arrived in the Colony in 1873. He served overseas in World War I. Mr. and Mrs. Philpott plan to live with their son Barry at Kawagawa, North Auckland, NZ.