TUAPEKA MOUTH MINING

Otago Daily Times, Issue 21990, 27 June 1933, Page 8

TUAPEKA MOUTH MINING

TO THE EDITOR.

Sir, —It is rumoured that a certain farmer in the near vicinity of the strike of gold at Tuapeka Mouth has made application to the local warden for a license to prospect 300 acres, and that a most powerful mining syndicate is behind him — whether for the farmer's benefit or for its own I. leave it to your readers to guess. Now, though the farmer may have caught the "gold fever" badly, I would respectfully suggest\to the Minister of Mines that one-tenth of the area applied for —viz., 30 acres—would be of sufficient size for this totally inexperienced gold seeker to serve his apprenticeship as a digger. The three finders of the gold were content with a total of 17 acres "between them. They realised that they were only three out of hundreds of subsidised gold miners. Why should any particular farmer, with the backing of mining magnates, be granted'a prospecting license for 17 times the area of 17 acres pegged out by Messrs Williamson, M'lvor, and Walker. Perhaps, however, the Unemployment Board wi|l forestall this ambitious farmer and instruct its legal representative to be present at the Warden's Court, Lawrence, on July 17, to raise an objection, to the grantinir of this application. If the Unemployment Board really has the interest of the subsidised digger at heart it will fight this application tooth and nail and thereby provide numberless unemployed miners with a chance to make good.—l am, etc., Old Timer.