While Cabricl Head is generally given the credit for being the first discoverer of gold in (tahriel’s Cully, at tho hack of Lawrence, there is no doubt that Edward Peters, or ‘‘Black Peter,” was the first man to prospect in the district, and it was Itis work and knowledge that enabled Read to make his famous “strike.” At. the seventy-fifth anniversary of the discovery of gold in Cahriel's Gully little was said of the work of “Black Peter,’’ but during the course of the celebrations Mr. Harry Hart appealed to those present lo do something to show appreciation of the part played by Peters in the opening up of the gully.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19026, 28 May 1936, Page 12
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