LURE OF GOLD SEARCH
WORK FOR UNEMPLOYED MEN. VENTURES IN NEW SOUTH WALES. Sydney, February 4. Men, old and young, but especially young fellows with a love of adventure, and either out of employment or threatened with the noble order of the “sack,” are turning up in large numbers at the Mines Department in Sydney, and learning something of the art of the gold “fossicker” before igoing out on ' the gold-searching expeditions which threaten to become something of a craze. The argument of these prospective gold-seekers is that, since work is about as impossible to find as a needle in a hay stack, they might as well be living cheaply - under tents in the bush, with the assistance of the Government, even if. at the end of it all, they can show no more.gold than in the fillings of their ♦ca*h, . • y - r
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Taranaki Daily News, 18 February 1931, Page 5
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