BEACH WORKINGS.

Evening Star, Issue 7412, 6 January 1888, Page 2

BEACH WORKINGS.

TO THK EDITOR. Slit,—For the information of " Unemployed," allow me to state that haviDg discovered myself and "Old Digger" to be mates in the party formed for working one of the beaches referred to, we thought it unwise to continue to discuss the matter. At Waikawa the terraces contain gold from top to bottom, and lately an application for a water-right for the purpose of sluifcing the whole of them hai been opposed by the Marine Board, on the grounds that the entrance to the rivers would be blocked by thesand. As regards the beach itself, there are no regular claims marked off on it. 'I he parties working simply put in a tail-race ard work as much yround as is within easy reach of the boxc-c, ami then move on ahead. There is at preseat about two miles of the beach unoccupied, and, as there are some sixty persons down there, the same source from which they secure necessaries are open to others. At the Six-Milo there are long terraces of Bandhills, much the same as those at Waikawa, and water is now being brought in by parties thtre to work them. This is all the information I can give " Uemployed." Just a line or two to "Old Digger No. 1." Does he suppose that the Labor Bureau would think of sending eld bioken down and untrained men to prospect for gold on the beiches or anywhere else? Under such conditions the experiments might be expected to prove a failure. I should rather think that a flower garden in some of our benevolent asylums would be the proper place to send such to dig. My friend and mate, "Old Digger," quite agrees that there are many places in New Zealand that the Bureau would do wibely in sending men to prospect.—l am, etc., Lis Subjodick. Dunedin, January 6.