Valuable Top-Dressing
When Reginald Smith returned from several days’ prospecting in the West Australian bush, he dumped some rich loamy soil into a tub at the rear of nis home at Ora Banda. A casual fellow, Reg said nothing to his wife about it but went to Perth for a fortnight. When he returned he noticed the tub was lying empty at the back fence. He demanded to know what had happened to the soil, and his father-in-law told him he had used it to spread on a thin patch on the lawn. Reg spent all last week scraping the soil back into the tub—and when it was treated it gave 320 z. of gold, worth £3OO. The soil was part of a small patch of gold-bearing dirt he had found in the bush.
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Northern Advocate, 14 June 1947, Page 8
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