[?]e Farewells Two

Old Friends

LAE, Dec. 5.

SRY large number of Morobe sidents gathered in the RSL üb, in Lae, New Guinea, in ening of December 4, to say II to Mr. William H. and Elizabeth Chapman two -esteemed early settlers of the i area, who have gone to in sheep-farming at Charl- Victoria. The District Corn ier, Mr. Niall, said many kind about the departing couple; t. R. H. Bunting, MLC, on of the Club, made them a me presentation.

W. H. Chapman—a son of ibert Chapman, of Adelaide sity—went first to Levers in lomons; but after a couple *s he heard the Bulolo gold ig, and he arrived on the at Salamaua in 1926, to do for Guinea Gold N.L. (the ■e parent of BGD, Guinea s, etc). There was nothing Salamaua spit then except h Gorman’s trade store and of boarding house.” arched in over the mountains; cil Levien and others; and several miles of the Bulolo lats for Guinea Gold—the later, of some enormous 3. A year later, he began on his own account, all over i: and, with the miner’s ups ms, he put in 15 years, until ike out. In that period, he Miss Elizabeth Billett, of Tasmania. serving in NGVR and ', Mr. Chapman, at the war’s nt gold-seeking in Bougain lere was gold there—but it i £25 per ounce to get it out. later, he returned to Lae ittled down on Singaua on, eastward of Lae. He has troduced the new owners, d Mrs. McDonald, to the .nd now, with their grand ;heir son-in-law was killed

in a motor accident a few months ago), they are headed for a new life, in Victoria.