EXPORT OF GOLD
INCREASE FOR SEPTEMBER. (Per United Press Association.) Wellington, October 27. More gold was exported from New Zealand during September than during any single month for many years, according to a statement by Mr A. H. Kimbell, Under Secretary for Mines. The export for the month was 20,347 ounces valued at £113,275, or rather less than one-sixth of the total gold, exported for last year. Mr Kimbell said that from January 1 to September 30 prospectors alone had sold 12,620 ounces of gold valued at £55,674. This amount was much higher than the corresponding figure for 1931. It was considered that the number of prospectors had increased by 400 or 500 per cent, during the first nine months of the present year. The average monthly revenues, for gold actually sold, of the individual prospectors ranged from £8 18/6 to £l3 8/-.
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Southland Times, Issue 21849, 28 October 1932, Page 7
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143EXPORT OF GOLD Southland Times, Issue 21849, 28 October 1932, Page 7
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