DAILY FEATURES

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LXIV, Issue 11933, 27 January 1936, Page 2

DAILY FEATURES

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A PAGE FROM THE PAST Tauranga 50 Years Ago These paragraphs are taken from the Bay of Plenty Times of January 26th.. ISS6:

“All sorts of impossible rumours have been current in town during the last few days to the effect that gold had been found in payable quantities at Te Puke. Some of these reports we have been unable to verity, and

cannot therefore vouch for thentruth: however it was positively as-

serted yesterday that one party had come into town to claim protection for a prospecting claim at Te Puke. Be this as it may. a number of parties are busily at work in that neighbourhood. and we leant from a gentleman who arrived in town on Monday from this district, that many very promising indications of niineial wealth have been discovered, and the prospectors are sanguine of success.” “According to advertisement the s.l. Result will convey intending excursionists to the s.s. Clansman, which will be unable to come up the harbour owing to the low state of the tide, on Friday morning, leaving the wharf at seven o’clock. The exsursion to White Island gives every indication of being a success, and already a large number of people have signified their intention to enjoy the trip.’’