GOLD DISCOVERY AT AWAKINO.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXI, Issue 196, 18 August 1900, Page 2

GOLD DISCOVERY AT AWAKINO.

The. "Hawera Star" la calling attention to the gold discovery reported .from Awakino, West Coast, and ■ considers the business people of. the district greatly lacking in enterprise in not equipping an exploration party. The "Staf" says:"— We have- before dra-v^n attention to the country lying between the Awakino and Kawhia as practically the only block of country of equal extent lying contiguous to the older settlements which has not received the attention it deserves by those seekinar for minerals. The old. story concerning some large nugget beingVn the hands of some old settler or Maori, who can give but; a yague' account of the place of its origin, which is .constantly in evidence when the riew> district is supposed to contain gold, has.not been wanting in. this instance. Many years ago an old Maori was found wearing'as a neck ornament a nugget of gold which she said had been found by her husband in the Marokopa River. The latter is a.stream running into the sea between the Awakino and Kawhia, and its head waters run from a southerly direction through rougn country before they turn westward to tlio sea. The upper Waters of the Awalcino, on the contrary, rise north-east of Its mouth, and run in a southerly course to the ocean, *bo that the watershed of each is somewhere in the same neighbourhood.' V ' - - :