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Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 December 1955Vol. XXVI, No.5

Sandy Creek Returns

p. 24 · Read in the full issue

ADVICE has been received from Sandy Creek Gold Sluicing Ltd. that during the months of Sep tember and October, 1955, approxi mately 46 ozs. 10 dwts. of gold were recovered from approximately 4,000 cubic yards of material treated at their New Guinea leases. t A new radio station for Cable and Wireless Ltd. is being built at Samabula, outside Suva, Fiji, and is expected to be in operation by March, 1956. This is expected to improve radio telephone services be tween Suva and New Zealand.

H Dr. W. L. I. Verrier Senior Medical Officer, Fiji, left Suva on November 2 by air, to attend the World Health Organisation Inter national Yaws Control Conference in Nigeria.