Lonely Miner
DEATH ON PAPUAN ISLAND Per Press Association. AUCKLAND, Dec. 29. The death has occurred at his home on a lonley icland off the coast of Papua of Mr. Robert Boyd, aged 83, gold prospector and planter, who spent his early manhood in New Zealand. Mr. Boyd came to New Zealand in 1887 with his parents from Ireland in the ship Lady Jocelyn. His father had purchased land at Katikati for £2 an acre, but farming it proved a hopeless business, and Mr. Boyd left the property as a boy and went mining in the South Island. Leaving New Zealand in 1888 Mr. Boyd went first to Broken Hill and then in 1900 to Woodlark Island, off the Papuan coast, to prospect for gold. Three years later he went to the island of Misima, about 40 miles due east from Samarai, where he had since lived. He discovered a lode which produced gold in very payable quantities. Mr. Boyd last visited his brother, Mr. T. Boyd, of Wynyard Road, Mount Eden, and other relatives in New Zealand nine years ago.
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Manawatu Times, Volume 64, Issue 308, 30 December 1939, Page 7
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181Lonely Miner Manawatu Times, Volume 64, Issue 308, 30 December 1939, Page 7
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