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Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 April 1957Vol. XXVII, No. 9

Dldields Production

p. 159 · Read in the full issue

blowing production was an iced for New Guinea Gold s Ltd., for March; Golden tfili, 1,152 ozs fine gold: 1,423 r. Golden Ridges alluvials, me gold. Koranga alluvials, fine gold. Tributes, 102 ozs I. Timber, 110,871 super feet.

t On March 22, HMZS Rotoiti, com manded by Lt.-Commander W. J.

Brown, RNZN, arrived at Rarotonga.

The Rotoiti is one of the two Royal New Zealand Navy frigates that will act as weather ships and patrol vessels during the forthcoming British hydrogen-bomb tests to be controlled from Christmas Island.

The Rotoiti will be stationed in the Central Pacific for some months.