NEW GUINEA GOLD

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 401, 9 July 1928, Page 1

NEW GUINEA GOLD

ENGINEER RETURNS TO FIELDS BY PLANE Tales of gold in Fiji and New Gu nea were told this morning by Mr. 0. Moen, of Waitahuna, Otago, a mining engineer, who returned from Fiji by the Tofua. He has been in Fiji for the past six testing for gold and platinum there, and has brought back some specimens. Moen has found traces of gold n Fiji, but whether it is there in payable quantities has not been divulged| For nine months Mr. Moen was in ■Jew Guinea, in the region where large quantities of gold had been discovered. He said this morning that the cabled of t* l ® dnd had been exugSerated a good deal. cvi?t r ? were rich reefs of gold at Edie v.,V n . *be mandated area of German CrZ\T ] uinea * an <i 26 claims at Merrie k not far from the former place, ounrA yieldin & an average of 1,500 ♦Xi*? of &old from claims measuring ‘•Mft by 100 ft and sft deep, of * iad keen a considerable rush tJLroi? m en to the new goldfields, but ot - ... Was now a tendency on the part Piace alluvial searchers to leave the in T !l e new & old fields were 7,000 ft high, country. Men were Dlarw? a and from the fields bv airfrnrr> c? , They ' ve re only about 55 miles \?! Salamoa b y air. talk* f^ oen said he had heard some in a race of pigmies being found GnirvI 6 high country of Dutch New hart anc * knew of one man who not n^}f :rriy for a servant. He could rm *be reports received in •ustraha recently of the discovery of I ? usly nnknown race in the B «ntainous country of New Guinea.