WOMAN PROSPECTOR
SIX MONTHS IN PAPUA SEARCH FOR A FORTUNE Mrs. Margery Campbell, a former Sydney stenographer, returned recently from many thrilling experiences in Papua, where she learned in a month sufficient about the goldmining process to take it up as an occupation. She intends staying in Sydney two months before returning to Papua to f°'' o again the life of a prospector. "I will stay there until I make a fortune, she says. Mrs. Campbell spent about six months in Papua. She left Port Moresby in a schooner with Captain and Mrs. Brewster, for a 160 miles journey along the coast to Vila Rupu, where she found about 10 men on tne goldfields. There was only one other white woman there. She immediate > set to work and put in a number ot sluicing boxes with six boys to a box. The boys worked hard and were quite domesticated. She never had to about the next meal, but she washed out the boxes ever}' night. A good living could be made, said Mrs. Campbell, and there was always the possibility of becoming rich, Ihe climate was wonderful. The people were hospitable and charming. She travellec for days with natives and always found them safe and sure. She carried a revolver only to use when snakes appeared.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21880, 16 August 1934, Page 8
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