Mount Rattlesnake in background, Sudest Island. The discovery of gold near Laloki and Brown Rivers in the 1870s did not make mining an economically viable option. It was the 1888 discovery of gold on Sudest Island in the Milne Bay Province that led to a gold rush of Europeans from the declining goldfields of North Queensland. Further discoveries of gold in Woodlark and Misima around the same time saw the heavy presence of Europeans in any one time on these islands. Eight years later The Brisbane Courier (Qld) of Saturday 17 October 1896 published Sir William Macgregor, the Lieutenant Governor of New Guinea, an account of this mining. “On the 23 rd the steamer anchored at the east end of Hula Bay, on the south side of Sudest island, some half-a-mile from the store built by the British New Guinea Gold Mining Company. It is at the head of this bay that the company is to carry on its operations.” “Some time ago certain gold-bearing quartz veins were
Chronicles the stories of education, books, writing, and reading in the life of Steven Edmund Winduo, PNG writer extraordinaire, literacy advocate, social literary activist, literary scholar, & teacher. Fern Ridge is a translation of Safla Rama, where home is for SEW.