YOUNG WOMEN MINERS
OPERATIONS AT ROUND HILL SUCCESS MADE OF CLAIM Two young women at Round Hill, near Riverton, according to a Southland report, have shown courage, fortitude and no little skill in working a gold claim. In a sludge channel and in the hillside bordering it. some 40 claims are at present located, but none has a more .workmanlike appearance or is being more successfully operated than that which these two sisters, the Misses Jordan, have acquired. Not once did they seek male assistance as they performed the arduous preliminaries to the commencement of operations. The tram-rails, the fluming, and all the other appurtenances of gold mining were installed by their unaided labour and the claim is operated solely by them. While one sister shovels into the truck the gold-bearing wash from the cutting and propels the truck to the tip, the other is busy at the boseis. It is reported that their weekly earnings are close upon double figures in New Zealand currency.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21717, 5 February 1934, Page 8
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165YOUNG WOMEN MINERS New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21717, 5 February 1934, Page 8
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