NEW GUINEA GOLDFIELD

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXI, 14 October 1926, Page 6

NEW GUINEA GOLDFIELD

GLOWING ACCOUNTS (By Telegraph.—Special to “The Mail.”) AUCKLAND, This Day. Sydney newspapers just received contain glowing accounts of the gold find at Edie Creek, in New Guinea. Gold worth £40,000, about 16,000 oz, from the new field reached Sydney recently. Five thousand ounces came from one syndicate alone. Although it was the biggest shipment as yet from New _ Guinea, the consignment was only a small portion of the gold won on Edie Greek and adjoining fields.. Prospectors are holding back the larger part of their gold owing to the difficulties of transportation. All manner of containers were put to use by prospectors to ship the gold, even coffee tins sewn in canvas and stamped with the owner’s name and the Government seal affixed, were filled. Kerosene tins, however, which have been used on other occasions, have become too valuable. They are proving ideal for carrying rice, which is hermetically sealed in them. ’Writing to a friend in Australia, a man who is on the field says: “The show is beyond all question the richest thing we have discovered in New Guinea. Prospectors took more than 80 ozs. out of a hole smaller than a post hole, and it showed no signs of finishing. I guess that where they have been working four boxes they have been making not far short of 1000 ozs. a day. Unfortunately my ground is not anything like that, but such as it is it satisfies me. Up to the present this year I have won about 1300 ozs. Rumour lias it that men are rushing here from all quarters of the globe.”