Trafficking in N. Gu[?]
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Outbreak of Gold Trafficking in N. Gu[?]
SEVERAL cases of stealing ceiving gold have been the Supreme Court in Ws Lae, New Guinea, recently.
On May 29, Carlo CavaL married man with three ch and employed by Bulolo Gold I ing Ltd., as a dredge hano charged with stealing 625 of gold amalgam valued b< £1,600 and £2,000 from his emp He was sentenced to 12 mont; prisonment at the Wau Courtl During the war, Cavalieri Patrol Officer with ANGAU.
Another man, Arthur Lv Ahlberg, an underground employed by New Guinea Go!
Ltd., was charged and convio having gold unlawfully in h] session. He was sentenced months gaol in the Wau Cot May 29.
Mr. Jack Wilson, contract Port Moresby, at a hearing Wau Supreme Court befon Justice Kelly, on May 31 an« 3, was charged with receiving ounces) gold, the property of) knowing it to have been stole Wilson pleaded not guilty. 1 found guilty and sentenced, months hard labour and waj taken to Bomana Gaol, Moresby.
A Chinese, Ming Fook known as Eric Woo, storekee Chinatown, Lae, at a hear the Lae Supreme Court befc Justice Kelly, on June 7 and. charged with buying a quan gold amalgam without a lice do so, or alternatively that I a quantity of gold amalgam possession without lawful He pleaded not guilty.
Mr. Jack O’Shea prosecut the Crown, and Superintt Hicks, Sub-Inspector Duff a:> James Wilton, gold retort foreman for Bulolo Gold Di Ltd., were witnesses for the p< tion.
Mr. Justice Kelly dismiss; first charge on the grounds tl Crown did not entirely prr case (the Police omitted tf the numbers of the notes u the transaction).
Woo was found guilty • second charge and sentence® months hard labour.
It is believed that trafficl gold has been going on im for some time. Gold sold blackmarket in the East is; about £6O an ounce. It is If that the illegal price paid fo NG is around £6 per ounce. t The Catholic Church in I has recently lost two well! missionaries. One was Frere 78, who died after 54 years oft ing in local schools. The otl Father Guillaume, 51, who w popular in Noumea.