PROSPECTING FOR GOLD.

Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 212, 8 September 1927, Page 6

PROSPECTING FOR GOLD.

A* I have had long experience of sold mining arid ptwpecting <oa the Ota pt) goldlwlil> might I suggesi to " Vigilaaoe *' a poawlilr reason for the amendments made to 11k Mining Act, last scswims and why they ajMij) only t» OtagoJ 1 Some little time ago tlic Minister of Mine* dedded to exempt about seventy thousand acres of gold-hearitip land on the upper reaches -of the Waipori River, where several miner* had to lie Ixiught out to reserve this land, which is both alluviiil and quart* reef country. I understand tliat a special Act was passed by Parliament to allov this land to he vested in the Dune&ht Hit; Corporation for the paipose of forming a dan at Waipori The seventy thousand aerei extend* from the dam upwards to the hujhci country, and the idea of sach a huge extent of reserve ia to prevent gold miner* woi'kiri}: within that drainage so that that dirty water will not reach the dam. In my opinion thfo exempted ground in its upper reaches the source of all gold found at Blue Spur, Gabriel's Gully, Wcatherstones, Matche!'* IW and Waipori. * I>uring the past fifty yam* gold miners have been unrepresented in Parlitment by any member who has ever been « practical gold miner or prospector, oonseqaeßtly many blunders have been made for the want of light <»n the subject. The gold mining industry which made New Zealand in the past has ttcen allowed to fade away to a f-hadow. *nd in a short time will die a natural death simply because no thorough }>roqss«Jttiuj ha* ever been d«nc in the country. JAMES BOTH.