PROSPECTING FOR GOLD

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 17957, 8 December 1932, Page 11

PROSPECTING FOR GOLD

EXTENSION OF OPERATIONS .. p-’ -a- s (Per Press Association.) ; :WELLINGTON, this day. In the Legisaltive'Council this morning,- the Hon. M. Fagan asked the Government whether, in view of the satisfactory manner in which gold prospecting was responding as a branch of unemployment, relief, it would immediately take advantage of the summer months by sending out a number of parties under competent supervisors to prospect for reefs on auriferous areas known to exist on the west coast of the South Island. The Hon. R. Masters said a large number of prospectors already was engaged with the aid of financial assistance from 1 the Unemployment Board and the Mines Department: in pros 1 peeling many of these areas, and-fur-ther measures in the direction of more systematic prospecting were now being discussed.

WORK IN CENTRAL OTAGO

The success that has attended gold prospecting by the unemployed in Central ' Otago was discussed by the deputy-chairman of the Unemployment Board, Mr J. S. Jesse'p, who has returned to Wellington. Mr .Jcsscp stated that about a thousand men had been placed as gold diggers by the Unemployment Board, and before the summer was over it was hoped to increase this number in Otago by another 500.

“There is at least one part of New Zealand where the prevailing depression does not penetrate,'’ Said Mr Jessep. “The gold diggings of Central Otago may have lain dormant and neglected for many years, but they are fast coming back into their own. Lt is also intended to organise the West Coast for gold prospecting in much the same way.”