A LABOURER'S WINDFALL.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19391, 28 July 1926, Page 13

A LABOURER'S WINDFALL.

GOLD NUGGET WORTH £34. PICKED UP BY STEAM NAVVY. Friday, July 16, was pay day to Frederick Sisscns, a Sydney labourer, in two ways.. First, he drew his wages, and then a nugget worth £34 dropped at his feet, says tho Sydney Sun. He was employed on the railway excavations in Hyde Park.. In company with a number of other labourers he was attending to the road leading to the steam navvy which was taking great inouthfuls out of a huge mound.

Everything was going along smoothly, and the lorries were moving out one by otic with their loads. Then one lorry pulled up near where Sissons was working, and a piece of rock that looked like a lump ol clay fell at Sissons* feet. He v,as just going to throw it back on to the lorry when he noticed a glitter from it in the sun.

Sisson nonchalantly picked up the rock. "Boys, look what I've found," he yelled, as he danced a Highland fling. "Look at it! Look at it!" he shouted excitedly. "It's a nugget." Sissons did nob stay much longer at work. In his luncheon hour he had it valued and then asked for the afternoon off as he wanted to put it in safe keeping. So Sissons went home to tell his wife of his jgood fortujjie while the othev workmen eagerly scanned bucket after bucket that the steam navvy dropped on to the lorries in the hope that there would be more nuggets. , The ganger said that he had not seen men work so hard 10 his hf©. . * think that there is the est earth that is not scanned as it the lorry," he said.