PROSPECTING FOR GOLD

Evening Star, Issue 21009, 25 January 1932, Page 11

PROSPECTING FOR GOLD

IN THE TUAPEKA DISJRICT MR M. HEWITT TO THE FORE Our Tuapeka correspondent sends us the following:— Mr James Hewitt, for many long years a resident of the Tuapeka district, in which he followed the occupation of a mine/, who is now in business in Auckland city, has been here for, the last four or five weeks engaged m prospecting. He has made a practise tm some years of coming this way during the Christmas holidays, I to follow up a deep-seated Conviction that has taken possession of him that there is “an inlet” (or lead), yet to be discovered, to the Blue Spur cement deposit, and that its location will be “ truly worth while.” Ha holds, too, that the upper levels—vae country above and 'beyond the Blue Spur in a westerly and easterly* direction—calls for thorough and systematic prospecting, because so little is actually known as to what it carries in mineral wealth. He is better satisfied this year with the indications he has- met with than on any previous occasion, and is quits satisfied in hir own mind that sooner or later 'he will discover something that will bring the Tuapeka district into prominence as an outstanding gold-producer On this occasion Mr Hewitt was accompanied .by three Auckland men who are interested in gold ’mining, and their prospecting work was confined chiefly to n belt of country from the Black Hill (north of Evans Flat) extending .on the higher levels to the head •of Reidy, Creek, the main tributary of the Wan tahuna River. It is in this country, off the beaten track, that he anticipates getting on to a run of gold that will prove highly profitable arid of. a permanent character, and later give employment, when properly developed/ to scores of minerau