Most of the gold workings in the South Island are being carried out in fields already tried by “old timers”, and owing to present prices of gold, it' pays to work a lot of the country which was unpayable in the early days. Mr G. F. Clapcott, a former engineer to the Napier Borough Council, said yesterday that these diggings were payable with capital and modern plant, and from his observations down there it seemed to him that good work could be done by small parties of working miners, if they had the necessary capital and plant necessary for the development of the terraces. This would permit them to get away from the beaten track of these’ “old timers”, and allow them to work on more or less virgin ground.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/HBTRIB19340320.2.8
Bibliographic details
Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXIV, Issue 83, 20 March 1934, Page 3
Word Count
130Untitled Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXIV, Issue 83, 20 March 1934, Page 3
Using This Item
NZME is the copyright owner for the Hawke's Bay Tribune. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of NZME. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.