PROSPECTING FOR GOLD

Taranaki Daily News, 22 December 1931, Page 7

PROSPECTING FOR GOLD

DUSKY SOUND DISTRICT. EXAMINATION OF SAMPLES. Asa result of the utilisation of unemployment funds for the encouragement of prospecting for minerals, a report was recently submitted to the Alines -Depart-, ment by the leader of a prospecting party which had worked in the Dusky ■Sound district. Samples of vario q mineralised rocks are being investigated by the Dominion Laboratory and already there is sufficient justification for decision to send out, early in the New Year, a party which will commence /work on two areas where it is believed that the men will make good wages bn an alluvial gold deposit. . In addition to this activity, another group will be sent to Fanny Cove and. Chalky Inlet to follow up the work of a prospecting party, while another area in Bain Bay district is to be similarly investigated by a party assisted from unemployment funds, subject to the usual conditions. The joint efforts of the Unemployment Board and Alines Department, in conjunction with a local committee at Thames, have resulted in a fairly large development of a system of prospecting under supervision.