QUEST FOR GOLD
PROSPECTING AT TATJPO
(By Telegraph.) (Special to th« "Ev.cnlno Post.") AUCKLAND, This Day. This morning tho Commissioner of •Crown Lands had beforo him applications to prospect for gold in "West Taupo. Tho Mangatu syndicate, which was granted a permit a whilo back, an* plied for further areas; and auothe? group pnt in for licenses- over an' area of 600 acres. Objections were lodged , on the ground that tho Mangatu syndi-' cato has not registered, and that the names of the members wore not dis-1 closed. , , Tho Commissioner said that tho ap-' plication seemed reasonable ancT would bo granted, but it might have to be re-. viewod by the Minister of Mines, who ' had granted the other applications Throe Hawkes Bay syndicates have £f?n W° g at Taupo over an area of 30,000 acres of Crown land. One appUcant informed a "Star" representative that it was not a proposition for the P°°r m xCDm H° saia that g°ld had been seen at Taupo, but so fa! it was allu* vial, and the question -of > prospecting was ono for moneyed syndicates.
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Evening Post, Volume CIV, Issue 75, 26 September 1927, Page 11
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182QUEST FOR GOLD Evening Post, Volume CIV, Issue 75, 26 September 1927, Page 11
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