Big Six Reduced
pp. 160-161 · Read in the full issue
Bill Money
Goes Finish
Big Six Reduced To One In[?]
IT is 30 years since pheno rich gold was found s Creek in New Guinea,! the original Big Six who s rich then, only one now J in New Guinea. He is Mn (Bill) Royal, who is still ] gold, “one hour’s walk from) in the Sepik District.
Until last month there w of the Big Six still in the Tl The other was Bill Money.
September he left Lae, prod good, and now is an im.
Greenslopes Repatriation I Brisbane.
Money once was wealth gold the syndicate won Creek and later from pn plantations. Now he is health, and has no money.
Territorian has put it, “Some louse has got it fro in fact, more than one lox was always good for a 1« many people who have hao from him ‘to get starts conveniently forgotten to back. And, of course, h bothered with legal docuir any other written proof.” I With his partner, Reynolds, Money owned a v, plantation on Siassi Island;; they sold to the Lutheran shortly before the Secono War, and Reynolds died Sadakan death march. Mcc had interests in other pis on the New Guinea main trading stations and schoon these too have now all gor * * * In New Guinea, people i glibly about the Big Six — few present generation Ten know who they were, precisely what they achie Even old-timers are vagua to what happened to thr dozen men who were oncee amongst the most fortunate; Guinea. One thing is certas ever —none of the Six area the millionaire class, althou are comfortable. A quick c: revealed the following info —perhaps some reader can it: • Bill Money: Now inr slopes. • Bill Royal: Still at Ml • Dick Glasson: Resid Nambucca Heads, NSW, w has an interest in prope fishing boats. • Frank Chisholm: Die
> in Australia, but little town about him. loane: Last heard of some running a poultry farm bane. t Royal: Living in Mel- An old Territorian re ,t “he probably is the best lot.” He is a brother of his contribution to the was financial; he did not irk on the claims at Edie arly 20’s Shark-Eye Park rich gold 3,000 feet up in lountains at Koranga the following years many s followed him in, over ains from Salamaua, and Dund the area now known 3ut not all were fortunate gst these were Bill Royal riends Glasson, Chisholm y. lot until 1926 that Royal ea of going further afield, ng what was known as to its source—he had )und tantalising colours ir reaches. ie rose about 4,000 feet t is, at an elevation of which in those latitudes eans perpetual rain and decided that Glasson impany Royal in his at scale the hitherto un icights; Money and would stay behind to ;ores. And it was Royal i Glasson and the car made camp one night, alone impatiently, broke the top, tried a dish in Edie—and rushed back yelling: “Gold! Gold!” tie prospectors returned nountain, Joe Sloane was first they told of their Albert Royal was brought outfit for a different ; was a small field, and sibility kept all but the way. It was said that an “ounce to the shovel n the first year, the few ng are believed to have 3 h tons of gold. Any i 100 to 200 ounces per sluice-box was common those days was worth ier ounce—and all Edie d a high proportion of iwever, there was still give the Big Six their tfore they sold out their sts to a mining company. ungi, Prime Minister of ed in Auckland by Tofua )?r 4 to spend a month in id. He will reside at the iga Govenment residence, it Epsom, Auckland.