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GOLDMINING RELIEF

WESTLAND AND NELSON. A “FIGHTING CHANCE.” •' Gisborne, March 25. The importance of goldmining opera- ..r; tions on the West Coast as a means of lifting part of the burden of unemployment relief from the Unemployment Board was emphasised by the deputy- , chairman of the board, Mr. J. S. Jessep, . in the course of an interview. Mr. Jessep has just returned from an extended visit to the West Coast, where he was- engaged in organising goldmining ' opera-. X. tions on sound lines. ‘ ’ All county councils throughout the West Coast area, he said, had taken over/ ? the supervision of goldmining. Skilled supervisors, men experienced in mining, had been appointed with the approval of the Unemployment Board to superintend. men who wished to take up gold proS«>j pecting, and as a result of the board’s ’ activities in -.this area Mr. Jessep was advised from Wellington yesterday that . drafts of men are leaving every week for Collingwood, Nelson, Murchison and . other areas. Supervisors also have : structional duties and inexperienced meix are taught all they require, to- knoW? The men are given definite areas for thei<._ operations and are shown how to gd about the work. “If results on the West Coast lollop on similar lines to those achieved & Central Otago,” said Mr. Jessep, “they should give several thousand men /d fighting chance to gain independence/ The Unemployment Board now has over. ■ 2000 prospectors at work in the South Island, and regularly each week some them ’•each the stage where they •winsufficient gold to relieve their felldar* ■ citizens of the responsibility of finding Xg relief for them through the UnempW**W ment Board.” ' « j ■

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Taranaki Daily News, 29 March 1933, Page 10

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GOLDMINING RELIEF Taranaki Daily News, 29 March 1933, Page 10

GOLDMINING RELIEF Taranaki Daily News, 29 March 1933, Page 10

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