WILD GOLD RUSH NEAR FAMOUS BENDIGO FIELD
’Possum Trapper Picks up Nugget HUNDREDS DASH TO SCENE United Press Association.—By £lectri« Telegraph.—Copy right. Beceived Sunday, 9 p.m. MELBOURNE, Aug. 3. A couple of days ago Arthur Goltz picked up a slug of gold weighing about 20 ounces in a forest reserve near Tarnagulla, a neighbourhood formerly famous for rich claims from which fortunes were won. Goltz had been trapping possums and while making his way home noticed the gold showing. A rush has now set. in. Motor cars, lorries and horse-drawn vehicles each loaded with men arjned with picks and axes are frantically making for tho scene which is 32 miles from Bendigo. Hundreds of acres of virgin ground are available.
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Manawatu Times, Volume LV, Issue 7295, 4 August 1930, Page 7
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120WILD GOLD RUSH NEAR FAMOUS BENDIGO FIELD Manawatu Times, Volume LV, Issue 7295, 4 August 1930, Page 7
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