SEVEN MILE BLACKSANDING.

Grey River Argus, 4 May 1932, Page 8

SEVEN MILE BLACKSANDING.

(To the Editor.) Six, —Let me publish a plea to the powers that be to preserve the Seven Mile Beach for unemployed men to seek a little gold thereon. I have been for over two years unemployed, and cannot afford to state a case in the right place. There have been about, fourteen pairs of men working on the beach up to date, and there is room and black sand enough for another fourteen pairs. One pair of men has to work very hard to put thirty feet square of gravel and black sand through the cradle between the tides, so I think my plea is fair. Two men have twenty-five chains pegged off. Other men like myself arc up against financial difficulties and could not go to court to obtain any such area, even if so disposed. You may think I am talking through my hat, as there are more than twenty-five chains of beach at the Seven Mile, but the black sand only lies on the north side of the creek. If the beach were to be limited to one pair, we unemployed seeking a chance of making a few shillings over the dole would be out of it. Men might say that if they got the beach they would leave the mines, but could the places of two men afford, in the mines, any work for less or a dozen unemployed who work on the beach? My plea, I hope, will not fall on deaf ears and that the beach will be left open to anybody who can only afford to buy a miner’s right.—l am, etc., * HOPEFUL BLACKSANDER.