NEW GUINEA GOLD
ANOTHER BIG SHIPMENT. DISAPPOINTED MEN RETURN. BETTER TRANSPORT FACILITIES. BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION -COPYRIGHT SYDNEY, March 10. A steamer has brought 14,000 ounces of gold valued at £35,C00, one of the largest shipments yet made from the' New Guinea goldfields. A number of miners who were unable to obtain leases on the fields also returned and a considerable number or other disappointed men are waiting to obtain passages. Some of the returnees declare that the reports of the richness of the field aire greatly exaggerated. Proosectors are building great hopes of better transport, thereby widening the prospects of exploring the goldhearing area, when aeroplane transit commences towards the end of April.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 11 March 1927, Page 5
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113NEW GUINEA GOLD Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 11 March 1927, Page 5
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