NEW GOLDFIELDS.
ANOTHER GOLD CONSIGNMENT FROM NEW GUINEA. TRANSPORTATION COSTS VERY HIGH. (Per Press Association—Copyright. SYDNEY, this day A further consignment of gold has arrived from the New Guinea fields. Returnees report that the great drawback is still the scarcity and high cost of labour for transport, but arrangements are being made to solve the difficulty by the establishment of an aeroplane service from the coast to the fields. The service is expected to be operating in March. Work on the fields has been held up awaiting the arrival of the warden to adjudicate the claims. Numbers of miners have been compelled to leave the fields, being unable to await the adjustment of the claims. The medical arrangements are greatly improved, and sickness is less prevalent. There have been no further disturbanees on the part of the natives. Intending miners are strongly warned that they must be financially well equipped, otherwise it is hopeless to reach and live on the new fields.
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Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume XXIV, 24 December 1926, Page 5
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