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Otago Witness, Issue 3882, 7 August 1928, Page 38

Judging from the recent experience of a Napier man on a visit to Hokitika, it might pay the municipal authorities in that town to dig up the streets and prospect for gold underneath (says the Telegraph). He happened to be passing down the street one day when he noticed some men at work digging a hole for a telegraph post. In consideration of the fact that the town was a gold mining centre, for the sake of curiosity he took a handful of the earth that they had dug up and placed it in an empty tobacco tin. On returning to Napier he placed the earth in a bottle, and, after washing it two or three times, found a considerable percentage of gold dust mixed with the earth. We publish the story for what it is worth, but until his treasured “ gold ” is properly analysed we would recommend that he bear in mind that other proverb, “All that glitters is not gold.” “New Zealand can hold millions of people, and over-population is not the real cause of unemployment,” said Sir James Gunson at a welcome extended to him by the Auckland City Council (saya a northern paper). “If we cannot employ our million and a half our organisation is defective, and we need a system Avhieh will absorb willing men in useful work. We want intensive industry. Our unemployed have a right to expect work, and>it is a failure in organisation if the demand is not met