OLD PROSPECTOR DEAD
FORTUNE AT COOLGARDIE .. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) WAIKOA, February 4. The police received word today that the'body of a. man named Tom Hardy had been found two and a half miles from his camp at Hopurahine, Waikaremoana. ' The deceased was in business for many years in Wairoa and after the sale of his business' went prospecting at the back of Waikaremoana. He located a quartz? claim and considered the prospects good, but required a battery to make'the claim a paying proposition. He had applied to the Government for assistance.. Mr. Hardy also prospected at the back of the Maungataniwha and found silver, but the country was too rough to make it payable. He was found by a boundary rider. He was a gold miner in Australia and was present at the first gold rush at Coolgardie, where he made a fortune. He was aged about 85 years.
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Evening Post, Volume CXIX, Issue 30, 5 February 1935, Page 5
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