GRANITES GOLD
“WASH-OUT” SAYS ENGINEER
(Australian Pres* Association.)
, SYDNEY, November 22. Mr C. G. Gibson, a Sydney mining engineer and 'geologist, expressed the view, following what he termed a good general overhaul of the country, that ffljbe Granites goldfield in Central Australia was an “absolute wash-out.’ He added that nearly all the Victorian companies interested 1 in the field had abandoned their options. An Alice Springs message says that unemployed men, whose resources have been exhausted in the • attempt to reach The Granites, are increasing in munifiers here’. They are (anxiously .awaiting a reply from Canberra to the requests for free railway passes to enable them to return to Adelaide.
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Hokitika Guardian, 23 November 1932, Page 6
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