NEW GUINEA GOLD

Evening Star, Issue 19326, 12 August 1926, Page 7

NEW GUINEA GOLD

THE BULOLO FIELD 5,000 OUNCES REACH SYDNEY. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. Australian and N.Z. Press Association. SYDNEY, August 13. (Received August 12, at 8.50 a.m.) Five thousand ounces of gold have arrived in Sydney from the Bulolo district, in the Now Guinea mandated territory. Forty miners are now operating in the district, and a similar number are waiting to proceed to the fields, but are unable to do so owing to the difficulty of securing labor to carry stores.

[A cablegram ‘ addressed to the ‘ Evening Star ’ on July 31 by Mr ti. W. Hamilton, late of Dunedin, and at present editor of tho llabaul ‘Times, - Rabaul, stated that at the Morobe Goldfield ten claims were estimated to be producing l,ooooz per day. The first prospectors got lOoz to the dish. The possibilities of tho field were phenomenal, and it was considered a veritable Eldorado. A Press Association message from Melbourne on July 16 stated: —“ Regarding the gold discovery in New Guinea, the Administrator’s report fails to boar out the reports of the richness of tho field, and warns people of limited means not to attempt to reach the field, owing to the difficulty of access and the conditions generally.”]