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Helping Out
At Gold Ridge
NG Labour at Work in BSIP
rpWENTY - FOUR New Guinea A natives were flown to Honiara, BSIP, by Qantas charter aircraft in mid-June to work at Gold Ridge.
The boys were taken in by Clutha Development Co., owing to difficul ties in recruiting local labour for their prospecting operations into the gold-bearing potential of Gold Ridge, 30 miles from Honiara, where promising lode discoveries were made last year.
Native agitators have delayed the recruiting of local workmen for the project, where the first task being undertaken by the Company is the construction of a road which will enable supplies to be brought to within one hour’s walk of the Ridge workings.
Five Santa Anna natives who had been recruited for work on Gold Ridge appeared in Honiara court recently to answer charges of con tract breaking.
None of the five had actually been to the Ridge. They were each fined £l5 and given seven days to pay.
The New Guinea natives are re
ported to have settled in quickly their new territory.