“A POSITIVE WASTE”
MUCH OF THE MONEY SPENT ON PROSPECTING By Te* • rra Press- Association CHRISTCHURCH, March 6. A definite opinion that much of the assistance now granted to gold prospectors working ground and tailings that had ‘been worked three or four times by early diggers, and since then has been worked two or three times by Chinamen, was positive waste of money, was expressed by the Minister of Mines (Hon. P. C. Webb), in an interview’ this morning.
The Minister said he could not see any possible hope of developing any areas that way. “Easily won gold,” said the Minister, “has been won by early, experienced diggers, and with all the expenditure of money through the Unemployment Board on prospecting in those areas, not one mine has been discovered worth mentioning. Nevertheless, a lot of useful information has been collected as a result of all the prospecting, and a considerable amount of gold has been won, but we have now reached the stage when the latest scientific knowledge must be brought into play, and the most modern machinery utilised in order to work the lower grade deposits on a large and economic scale.”
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXLIII, Issue 20670, 8 March 1937, Page 6
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