NEW ZEALAND GOLD
MONTH’S EXPORT A RECORD FOR SEVERAL YEARS (Australian Fibss Association.) October 27. More gold was exported from New Zealand during September than during any single month for many years past, according to a statement by Mr A. H. Kimbell, the Under-Secretary for Mines. The export for the month was 20,347 ounces, valued at £113,275. This is rather Jess than one-sixth of the total gold export for last year. Mr Kimbell said that from January Ist. last- to September 30th., th e prospectors alone had sold 12,620 ounces of gold valued at £55,674. This amount was much higher than the corresponding figure for 1931. It was considered that the number of prospectors had now increased from 400 to 500 per cent, during the first nine months of the present year. The average monthly revenues for the gold actually cold of individual prospectors'ranged from £8 18s 6d to £l3 Bs.
PRICE OF GOLD. LONDON, Oct. 27. The price of gold is now £8 ss.
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Hokitika Guardian, 28 October 1932, Page 5
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