FAMILY PRECAUTIONS
* FOUND DIAMOND WHICH THEY SOLD FOR £60,000 The 726 carats (about 50z.) Jonken” diamond, as it is called, which was found by Mr.Geert Jonker, with a native helper, was sold at Johannesburg to Sir Ernest Oppenheimer, chairman of the Diamond Corporation, Ltd., for between £60,000 and £70,000. Nothing has been decided about the future of the stone, which was dug up at a farm twenty miles north of Pretoria, but there is a feeling that it should be acquired for exhibition in the British Museum. 'On the night after the stone was found it was tied in a stocking round Mrs.. Jonker’s neck, and she was sent to bed wffiile the rest of the family and a neighbour sat up till dawn with loaded revolvers. The diamond was brought to Johannesburk by motor-car in the pocket of the manager of the Premier Mine, where the Cullinan diamond (3025 carats) was dug up in 1905, and which is three miles from Mr. Jonker’s, farm.
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Waipukurau Press, Volume XXIX, Issue 90, 11 April 1934, Page 5
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