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Otago Witness, Issue 3890, 2 October 1928, Page 52

The late Mr A. M'Pherson, of Orepuki, who was a keen observer of mining activities and saw what the local goldfields could produce, was always sanguine that though over a million pounds’ worth of gold had been won from the Orepuki siuice boxes there are still many more millions up in the Longwood (says the Orepuki Advocate). To a band of old miners who w-ere resting on the “old men’s seat ” one day discussing mining of half a centurj- back, he pointed his stick up to the mountain range and said: “You see that old joker! There is enough gold up there to pay the whole of our National Debt. It’s not found yet, but it will be found as soon as it is looked for. It is just being saved up there till it is wanted ” Now that Mr M'Pherson has passed over to the great majority it would be a blessing to all concerned if his prophecy was half fulfilled. X Reference to the establishment of an airport at Wanganui was made by Mr Louis Cohen at the annual meeting of the Wanganui Amateur Athletic and Cycling Club recently (states the Chronicle). It did not need much imagination, he said, to conceive, that what had been achieved in the past in aviation would be nothing to that of the future. Apart from its fascination, it seemed that it would be a great avenue for enterprising young men. It behoved all of them to attend the meeting to be held shortly to consider the formation of an aero club in