GRANITES GOLDFIELD.
STORY OF DISILLUSIONMENT * HARDSHIP. MANI’ MEN ILL & DESTITUTE. , (Received Sunday, 6.30 p.m.) MELBOURNE, December 18. Prospectors returned from the Granites goldfield tell a sad story of disillusionment and hardship. Men on the field. l(ve on flour and water, tea and sugar. The drinking water is impregnated with powdered mica. Many men are ill others, unable to find gold, straggled back to Alice Springs destitute and reached Adelaide on free rail passes.
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Wairarapa Age, 19 December 1932, Page 5
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