CHANCE GOLD FIELD

Manawatu Standard, Volume LV, Issue 254, 24 September 1935, Page 8

CHANCE GOLD FIELD

RICHES IN TANGANYIKA. Mr K. Menzies, a miner from the Lupa goldfields, Tanganyika, who arrived in Sydney recently on a three months' health tour, told a reporter that there were opportunities for experienced miners in Tanganyika. He said that, during his sojourn on the goldfields, lie had taken only one short vacation, so that, in a quarter of a century, he had only seen the sea oiicfe

Relating how he and other hardheaded Scotsmen had discovered alluvial fields in Tanganyika, he said that, in 1915, a German police sergeant, who was on duty in the area in which the party now operated. was seized with blackwater fever. Subsequent to his death the Germans lost this section of country, hitherto territory protected by them. A party of adventurous Scotsmen visited the place, having in their possession a sketch which proved to he most accurate in detail. They began alluvial mining operations in the Lupa River district. The country round about ' was exceedingly rough, but Mr Menzies had no doubt that, if operations were entered upon on a large scale, some rich fields would be developed. As it was, the party to which he belonged had done exceptionally well.