UNLUCKY GOLD MINERS
MOLYNEUX RIVER IN FLOOD PARTIES LOSE EQUIPMENT Goldmining operations on the Molv11eux River from Roxburgh to Cromwell have been practically--, at a standstill lately as the result, of flood conditions in the river. The level of the water is now fully six or seven feet above the normal’ summer level, and prospecting and fossicking parties on the banks have been flooded out, in many cases with considerable loss of equipment and plant. As most of the parties engaged in this locality are relief miners operating under the Unemployment Board subsidy the stoppage lias bad serious results for many of the men, who depend on the gold they win to supplement the allowance, 'made under the board’s winter relief scheme. The river rose very rapidly last week and many miners were caught unawares with their equipment right down on the water level. Their wheelbarrows, cradles, pans, and shovels disappeared down the river.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18397, 15 May 1934, Page 5
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154UNLUCKY GOLD MINERS Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18397, 15 May 1934, Page 5
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