GOLD REEF ON FARM.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 1, 2 January 1937, Page 7

GOLD REEF ON FARM.

OEM-STREWN BEACHES. LONDON. Gold in Wiltshire and precious stones on Cornish beaches offer alluring prospects of wealth to be won at comparatively small cost, says a "Reynolds News " correspondent. Lest there should be a rush to the Wiltshire " goMfield,?' however, it isjis well to inform would-be prospectors that the "strike" is on the farm of Mr. Bert Wootton, of Bamsbury, who is not asking for any help. While sinking an artesian well on some land at Fordingbridge he came to a rock strata, and he found that chips of it bore bunches of yellow specks that sparkled in the sunlight. Well aware that all is not. gold that glisters, he took the chips to Mr. J, WBrooke, a well-known Marlborough geologist, who said that the specks were gold. ' Brought from the bed of the ocean by the raging gales of the last few days, tourmaline and beryl, onyx, cornelian, and chalcedony are found in practically every Bandy bay. from Looe to Land's End - „ * White and; black or - brown-bandedi onyx and sardonyx—the stones from which cameos are principally cut— apple-green chrysoprase "and delicatehued cornelian, all are there to be picked up among common pebbles.' -- .".._.' The searchers for these beach jewels spend long hours on the storm-swept shores looking for the treasurertrove which is the sure ieward for their perseverance.'