GOLD REEF FOUND AT TAPU
PROMISING RESULTS OBTAINED.
GOOD YIELD OF FIRST CRUSHING.
By Telegraph.—Press Association. Thames, Aug. 14.
On Thursday Maori claim holders, who had been putting in levels at the Kaita gold claim, Tapu, were successful in cutting an entirely new reef, obtaining a considerable quantity of picked stone. A ton of stone was. crushed with primitive appliances and yielded one ounce three pennyweight, valued at £3 17s d 6. The Maoris will not allow anyone on the claim, but state that the stone looks more promising as the drive progresses.. At the rear of this claim a Taranaki syndicate is putting in a level and discovered a reef about 14ft wide. A ton of this crushed yielded 17 pennyweights. Some of the stone was exhibited in Thames and experienced miners say that it is particularly good.
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Taranaki Daily News, 15 August 1931, Page 11
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