AIDS TO PROSPECTING FOR GOLD OR OTHER PRECIOUS MINERALS.

Western Star, Issue 350, 19 May 1880, Page 3

AIDS TO PROSPECTING FOR GOLD OR OTHER PRECIOUS MINERALS.

The following are the conditions upon which grants in aid of prospecting will ;,be given by .Government: — 1. Pive thousand pounds (£5,000) ■ct ill be given to associations or local bodies in aid of prospecting for gold or other precious minerals, or in construction of prospecting tracks cut solely for the purposes of such prospecting, by way,of subsidy, ceut,per ‘ cent 'Upon a wage bdnsiderably - ’oelow th® market value of labor paid per bead on the number of men actually employed 2. No more than tu o hundred pounds (£200) shall be granted to any one local association or local body for any on©,,prospecting expedition.; Ilf'/ | B. No sum.shall be paid jiJ excess of such sum as may, be calculated upon a wage of .five ’shillings per day, on the number Mf men'actually engaged in arTKa association or local body .pmxe,tp .the satis- < MihiVtei ; for'lands, -diis lime kftiVilig hvhrcli prospecting WfeaMfl,on,-and T lh« “iftimips?, ! of ‘then' from,' fcme t o 1 1 me, cm 1 iptWUn'niZ-jtodii ;ih in { 5.)N0, prospecting to be allowed on Native land, without . the consent of the Native owners previously obtained, ’-and the approval of the Native Mihistbr. .iVT , Erospectors. going-on Native land without consent ot the owners' tiro liable to the penalties, imposed byithe Acts relating to Goldfields, and will j forfeit, all claim to reward,: f... 'if J