NEW GUINEA GOLD
INACCESSIBLE FIELDS TRANSPORT BY AEROPLANE [BY TELEGRAPH —OWN CORRESPONDENT] WELLINGTON, Wednesday " In New Guinea everybody thinks gold, dreams gold, and talks gold," said Mr. Byron Brown, Wellington, upon his return from the East. "All tho gold fields are accessible only by aeroplanes, and it is amazing the bulky machinery that has been carried in the air, over mountains 4000 ft. high. Our ship landed at Lao dredging machinery of great bulk, and all of it was carried by aeroplane to Bulolo and Wau.
" These two towns have grown to thousands of population, and, as yet, there are no roads to them —not oven a proposal to make roads, and the Administrator is quito happy. " Tho natives work under a regulation of the Commonwealth. They are fed by their employers on a standard ration, housed, provided with a loin cloth, and given 5s a month, which they spend on tobacco. They are happy people who play and joke with each other as they work, and work all tho better for laughing, The cargo is handled fairly efficiently, but they have a poor idea of order and economic working. These people do all the work of tho gold mines, and arc well looked after by tho Americans, who provide doctors and hospitals for them."
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23131, 1 September 1938, Page 14
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