IN SEARCH OF GOLD

Otago Daily Times, Issue 26353, 7 January 1947, Page 2

IN SEARCH OF GOLD

WOMEN PROSPECTORS Lured by gold, three adventurous Aus-' tralian women have enrolled for a gold prospector's course at the School of Mines in Kalgoorlie, the famed Western Australian gold mining town. They are.: 1 Mrs M. Walshaw, a dressmaker; Mrs Joyce Oliver, who was a nurse, but says sne will never go back to her profession while there’s gold about; and Miss Nell Brown, a policewoman, who has never been prospecting, but intends to try her luck. ~ , . Mrs Walshaw already has a goldminlng lease called the Coonega, at Comet Vale, about 60 miles from Kalgoorlie. She gets her gold ore from a depth of 60 fee-, raising the stone in a bucket with a windlass. She pans off her own gold samples, but has a man to help with the digging. The mine is called the Coonega, after Mrs Walshaw’s father, a big man with red hair and beard, who pioneered the district. In aboriginal it means "big red chief.” .. Mrs Oliver is learning prospecting so that she can help her husband, who has gold mine at Mungari, 12 miles from Kalgoorlie