GOLD-SEEKING.
INCREASE IN PRODUCTION.
I; ACTIVITY - AT MTTRCHISON.
OFFICIAL ENCOURAGEMENT.
! (By Telegraph.—Own Correspondent.)
WELLINGTON, this day. Mainly due to increased prospecting, New Zealand gold production during the fire months ended December increased to the extent of £60,000, compared with the corresponding period of 1930. The number of individual prospectors or parties who sold gold last December was 420, compared with 118 in the previous December. Miners' rights issued last year rose from 1049 to 29G9. Encouraging results have been secured by 46 prospectors in the Murcliison district, which included the old Howard field. Their last month's gold sales averaged £7 6/1 each. None received assistance from the Mines Department and few, if any, from the Unemployment Board, though official encouragement is being given to suitable men who are prepared to leave the cities for prospecting. Twelve months ago only four prosI pcctors were working in. the Murchison district.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXII, Issue 15, 19 January 1932, Page 3
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