EXPORT OF GOLD.
A SUBSTANTIAL INCREASE. (Per Press A&aociationL WELLINGTON, October 27. More gold was exported froin New Zealand during September than during anyi single month for many years, according to a statement by Mr A. H. Kimbell (Under-Secretary for Mines). The export for the month was 20,347 ounces, valued at £113,275, rather less than a sixth of the total gold export for last year. Mr Kimbell said that from January 1 last to September 30 prospectors alone had sold 12,620 ounces of gold valued at £55,674. This amount was much higher than the corresponding figure for 1931. It was considered that the number of prospoctors had increased by from 400 to 500 per eent. During the first nine months of the present year the average monthly revenues for gold actually 'sold of individual prospectors ranged from £8 18s 6d to £l3 Bs.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 53, Issue 15, 28 October 1932, Page 4
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