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THE GREATEST GOLD RUSH OF
MODERN YEARS.
29, 1929.
Dicappointed Prospectors. Men were now rapidly leaving the fields. Every "bost to Rabanul brought a further contingent of
HOTEL ROOF DECORATED WITH CHAMPAGNE CORKS. disappointed prospectors, who bad
BINGES," SICKNESS, AND LAWLESSNESS,
'THE ANGEL OF BULOLO."
The following lecture was broadcast last night, from the Government Station by Mr. P.-J. -- Clancey -- of the S.C.M.P. "New Guinea will The lecturer ended on a note of expectancy. see a gold rush again" he said. "It may be to-morrow, it may be in twenty years."
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Most people have" heard of the strictly forbidden within the Ter- great rush to the New Guinea gold-ritory, and it is necessary for a recruiter of native labour to get the fields which began early in 1926, boy's consent before a Magistrate but very few are aware that this lefore he can be signed on for rush almost reached the size and work. The recruiter gets u
mission from the employer for importance of the great rushes to whom he secures the boy, and in the Klendyke many years ago, and the case of goldfields porters this that the hardships endured by the commission was a high one, as de- mand was high and supply was low, prospectors were quite as grent as
The natives knew of the fever, the those of the Klondyke miners. The risk of murder by bush natives, and difference lay in the fact that the the awful toil that was Edie Creek and were chary of going there. New Guinea, miners suffered from
Hence only these prospectors with fever, heat and other tropical com large financial backing could se plaints, whilst the others were the cure porters, the man without cap- ital lost it all without as much victims of Aretic cold.
na seeing the fields for his pains.
The existence of gold within the Mandated Territory of New Guines has been known for at least a score of years. Prospectors plunged into its fever ridden interior in the days when it was a German Colony, and rumour had it that German pro- speétors had actually discovered gold, but kept their discovered secret when Australia took over the Colony under Mandate from the League of Nations.
After the war prospectors again continued their efforts, but nothing ene of them until in 1925, Mr. William George Royal, and a party of three other whites, stumbled on the Edie Creek, a tributary of the Balolo River, in Marobe, one of New Guinea's little known inland districts.
Immediately he made his find Mr. Royal knew that if he pegged But.. ordinary, claims he would be a loser, as the cost of transporting the alluvial guld to the coast would he so excessive that the claims would not yield enough to pay him for his efforts. Accordingly he staked leases in the names of him self and his companions, an action which was to lead to much had Feeling, but I will deal with that later.
18st the savings of many years. These men were in a pitiful ense. Very few of them had even covered expenses by the gold they had dug from the fields, and a large num- ber were going back home coin-|| pletely broke. Many of the pro- spectors were young men who had left civil and Government posts in Rabeul, and who were forced” të either return to Australia, or take up lesser positions in the town than they had previously held.
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However, there were many men who visited the fields who have good cause to bless the day that they threw up their jobs to go prospect- ing. I know of one, young man in a Government office, who had had no leave
five years. New Guinea is a place where you get three months leave in two years, owing to the extreme climate, so that you can readily imagine that this gentleman must have been thoroughly anxious to get back to Sydney, spend some of his hard earned money, and have a good rest. He took a chance, however, risked everything he possessed, and managed to secure paying lense You will all be glad to know that on the fields. One cannot fail to
the Booths are now wealthy people, admire his courage. The last time The last I heard of them was I saw him was in a fashionable re- that they were touring the world. staurant in Sydney, and he 'seeman occupation which they are now about £20,000 clear. ed to be enjoying life. He made
name ranks with those of Florence Nightingale, Edith Cavell, and other great heroines of history, and yet comparatively few know of this woman's noble work.
rich enough to indulge in whenever funcy strikes them. Still, I think We are all agreed that they deserve this.
The distance from the beach to the fields is about sixty miles, pos | sibly lesa. So hilly, and wooded is
A Veteran and a Woman. the country, however, that this short trip took about seven days to complete on foot.
I know other instances of young Most of the Edie Creek lenses Crocodile in- fested rivers had to be crossed, a place for old men, although many companies, formed by the leasown men the fields were hardly the to-day are under the control of hig keen watch had to be kept for went there, including one alders, most of whom will never see marauding hush natives, and thick gentleman of eighty-who took a the fields again. They are content jungle had to be cut away before chance and made good. One of the to sit. back and draw their the prospectors could pass. An in-young men mentioned was a former dividends, and I think we should dication of the nature of the coun-
Dr. Barnado lad, who came to Aus- that airplanes-which now run to joined the New Guinea Police, try is given when one considers tralia many years ago and later Edie Creek can travel from the This young man is now worth beach to the fields in something like fortune, and has given generously forty minutes.
Bickness Rije.
Sickness was rife on the fields, and the distance from fields to unch meant that food must run
all to the same, if we had been planes now ply between the fields on the Gelds in the early days. Air- and the beach, and what was once a terrible journey is now a pleasant
to the support of his old school-run before the steamer leaves Dr. Barnado's. It sounds like a Salamon Bay. novel, but it is real life.
A word should be said here for the only woman who visited Edie
"The Angel of
Another Gold Rush?
almost incredible, but out in the
Times have materially changed. low while the natives were going Creek. This lady was Mrs. Mary Two years have made a difference
Nooth, known down for fresh supplies. The por-Bulolo, and who was awarded the far country back of the creek, where murdered by bush natives, and ters died like flies, many being Order of the British Empire this no airplanes are seen, where the their bodies enten. Others succum terrible creek. Mrs. Booth went to
year for her grant services at the jungle is thick and impenetrable as ever, other men are pledding as bed to the hardships of this dread. fui life.
the fields with her husband, and Royal and his comrades pledded in was lucky enough to strike, a pay- 1925. Soon they will strike some- But in this as in all things there ing claim. During the whole of thing, and New Guinea will see a is a brighter side. A good story the time, she remained on the gold rush again. It may be to has been told of a prospector who fields-upwards of two years, I narrow, it many he in twenty years, had made a lot of money, and who thinkMrs Booth worked with her but it will come. Perhaps, then, wits returning to the fields with hishand, and at the conclusion of some of you who are listening to Mr. Royal's party. The whole of a day at the claim, tended sick night may feel the urge to go into the way up a very steep hillside, Ainers. Her wonderful personal-the wilds and come hack rich. In this gentleman abused, the dis-ity, her devotion to the sick men, that case, then, I hope that what I coverer, and demanded to know and her resolute refusal to leave have told you to-night will prove what he meant by finding a gold while she was doing good at the round guidance, and that you will feld in such a spot.
fields, won for her the admiration not come back and kick me if you of the hardest, roughest men. Her miss the lucky strike.
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Wealth Beyond Dreams, When Royal returned to Rahnal, the capital of the Mandated Terri
It was not long before the miners tory, the news of the discovery of the field spread like wildfire, and ions to the large leases which Mr. on the creek began to raise objec in a matter of weeks everyone in the little town was making frantic Royal had pegged out. They de efforts to get away to the fields.
manded that they be cut up and Further and further abroad spread distributed amongst the whole of the great news, and it was not long that there would be enough for all,
the prospectors on the crock, before prospectors from all over the The miners appeared quite incon- world, but mostly from Australia, were making for Rabaul. Salamos siderate of the fact that Mr. Royal Bay, the jumping of place for and his friends had risked their Edie Creek changed from a desert lives and capital to find the field, ed strip of sandy beach to a minin
and that lley quite naturally ture township of tents, matsheds, wanted a good slice of their dis and other demporary structures, very. However, so great did the Naturally one of the first buildingsvolume of complaint grow that fin- to go up was a hotel. It was ally the Australian Government de weird two storeyed wooden struc- cided to grant a Royal Commission ture with a grass thatched roof, to enquire into the whole affair. not unlike a Repulse Bay matshed. Royal Commissioner. McGregor sat Nevertheless that shanty was to see
for over two months at Rabaal, the day when its roof was to be and in a thatched courthouse at studded with champagne corks, put Salamoa to decide the issue, and there by miners who had come down eventually found that Mr. Royal from the coast, wealthy beyond was in the right, and that the New Guinea their dreams, for a binge. These mining laws of hinges were generally pretty solid justified the leases... affairs, too. I was told of one man who came down to the bench with over one thousand pounds' worth | The period just prior to Mr. of gold and lost the lot in a night playing poker. He went back to make some more..
Difficulties of Law and Order,
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McGregor's appointment was most trying one for the authori- ties on the field. Authority, as we know it, was represented by a War- den and one police officer, Mr. James Walker. Mr. Walker was, by way of being a useful man, how ever. He had served for many years in the Royal North West Mounted Police, and knew how to handle a difficult situation. It was mainly this man's single handed 'upholding of the law that quiet- the eued a dangerous faction on field. On one occasion a meeting of the miners decided to march to
Means of getting to the fields were limited, and the cast of stay- ing there was great, All manner of aged craft was rushed into com- mission to supplement the six weekly service of mail steammers to Salamor Bay, Schooners, with and without auxiliary engines, tiny steamers, long past their passengers days, and even native craft were impressed into service to get the prospectors to Salamon.. Many bet out with light hearts, and re- turned with lighter pockets. But Royal's leases and told every man still the trek went on.
to take a shovelful of alluvial soil This was done so that all away. of the men would have committed a technical offence and would be liable to punishment. The action was purely designed to buck the Government, and see what authority would do to enforce its decrees. Tactful handling again saved the situation, however, and there was Possibly this no further trouble. was due to the fact that the clearer heads amongst the miners realised that the Government could quite simply have stopped their stores at Salamon, and declared them out- laws if they had committed any Such is British grave offences, law as it is upheld even in the wil dent of lands. It is indeed doubt- | ful if the law of any other nation in the world would have been so sexphy grectes diffinityażytkuocado ciapalipaswondgebou
In order to prevent people with nut capital from rushing to the fields and getting stranded. the Australian Government only issued permits to travel to New Guinea to persons who satisfied them as to their financial position. When I left for the islands on Cavern- ment duty in 1928, the rush was at its height. The ship was as full us the old Cape Nome steamers, prospectors even slept on the decks, And on settees in the enloons. A number of people were not allowed to board the liner because they had been reftised permits, and every precaution was taken by the police and customs officers to ensure that there were no stowaways ahoard.
Native Labour,
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of the prospectors was securing na- and so respected by rough, and re- tive porters. Forced labour is sentful men. ·
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THE TUNG WAH HOSPITAL: DIRECTORS' THANKS.
(TO THE EDITOA OF THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS."]
the SI-In connection with formal opening of the Tung Wah Eastern Hospital yesterday, I shall be glad if you will be kind enough to express our sincere thanks to: to allow me, through your paper,
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