GRANITES GOLDFIELD
PESSIMISTIC OPINION
AN ABSOLUTE "WASHOUT"
SYDNEY. Nov. 22
Mr. C. G. Gibson, a Sydney mining engineer and geologist, expressed the view, following what he termed a good general overhaul of the country, that the Granites goldfield in Central Australia was an absolute "washout." He added that nearly all the Victorian companies interested in the field had abandoned their options. A message from Alice Springs states that unemployed men, whose resources have been exhausted in an attempt to reach the Granites arc increasing in numbers there. They are anxiously awaiting a reply from Canberra to their request for free railway passes to enable then to return to Adelaide.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21347, 23 November 1932, Page 11
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