SECRET GOLD-MINE

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXII, 2 March 1939, Page 9

SECRET GOLD-MINE

TYPIST SCOURS WORLD FOR PLANS HIDDEN IN STOLEN t A BIN FT By Atr Mail .Special Correspondent! LONDON. 4th February. A London typist has given up her job to search thv world for the lost plans o: an African goldmine discovered by her father. She i s Miss Zita Hill and the plans, she says, are concealed in an ancient Chinese pearl-inlaid cabinet which was stolen from her home. For five years Miss Hill has searched antique shops in England for the cabinet and twice she has made trips as far as Egypt and America in her search, only to find that at. the end of her journey •he had been put on a false scent. Soon she leaves for Paris on a new trail, and tln s time she thinks she will be successful. My father was a ‘White Hunter’ in Africa," she said this week. "1 can’t tel! you where, as that won id give a wavpart of my secret, but during one of his many expeditions he found a rich vein of gold. “fie kept m s find to himself, planning to cum. u it to England to raise money to finance a new mine. Then my mother died and my father decided to come back “We sold all our belongings except my father's old Chinese cabinet. It bad a secret drawer which only ho and I knew how to open, and in that he pub the chart that showed the exact position of the mine. Without the chart I could never hope to find it. "We were going from the Hat a friend had lent us to a theatre when our taxi crashed into another aud turned over. My father was kiiled instantly. 1 was rushed t - ' hospital with a*fractured skull and was unconcsious for more than a week. "When I regained consciousness again l was met with the news that our Hat had been burgled and the precious Chinese cabinet hud been stolen along with all tli i money I had in the world. "When I was well enough to move I borrowed sonic money aud set out on my search for the stolen cabinet. ‘ At last 1 got a clue or so I thought. The cabinet had been originally stoleu from a Chinese temple. Ail antique dealer in Marseilles told rue that lie had sold a cabinet that sounded like mine to a Chinese religious society that had its headquarters near the docks. ‘Taking all the make-up oft my face and putting on the oldest and most ragged clothes I could find, 1 risked going down *‘l was let into the house after a lot ot argument aud L actually had to lie down alongside seme of the filthiest pieces of humanity m the world aud pretend t v smoke an opium pipe before they would trust me- But all my trouble was useless. When everyone hi the room seemed to be unconscious. 1 wandered into a room that 1 suppose was some soil of a temple I found tlie cabinet that the antique dealer had described standing before an altar But it was not the one 1 sought." PATENT* Uo:i;y Hughes Lmii.eu patent and trade-marks agents (authorised by the New Zealand Government) report the following list of applications for patents in New Zealand, as compiled from the Government "Journals” of the 9th and 23rd February. 1939: Auckland: R. Brennan. casement stay; T. E. Richards, photographic colour work; J. G. Lilley, flushing cistern; T. H. Butchart. motor car door stay. Wellington: A. Ridd, milking plant; C. Tandy, game; C. W. Nicholls. poultry mash mixer; W. Robertson, bed settee; Zip Heaters Limited, water heating system; H. H. Johnson, pump; J. H. Mason, vacuum relief valve. Canterbury: A. McCorkindale. machine for bending metal rods; R. A. Campbell, W. G. Morrison and B. O. Moore, pile construction method. Otago: H E. Ehacklcck Limited, range door. Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure. Breaks up Colds quickly.