NEW DIAMOND FIELDS
“RUSH” IN SOUTH AFRICA Received Oct. 28, 9.50 p.m. JOHANNESBURG, Oct. 28. Specif* police have been drafted to check a rush of prospectors to newly discovered diamond fields at Vernaukpan, the driedup lake w’ re Sir Malcolm Campbell established his speed records in 1929. The fields are stated to ' equal in richness to Namaqualand. One prospector is reported to have found a hundred stones.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 257, 29 October 1937, Page 7
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67NEW DIAMOND FIELDS Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 257, 29 October 1937, Page 7
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