HUGE LOSS ON GOLD-WINNING.
On many occasions New Zealanders have acted against the line —“save the surface and you save the lot,” used as a slogan by American paint-mak-ers. Many thousands of acres of soil have been sluiced away by gold fossickers. Country which would have been a real wealth-yielding asset in perpetuity has been lost. What a lop-sided exchange! What a presentation for posterity ! It seems impossible to convince some persons that it is infin-
itely more important to conserve soil which yields materials for food, clothing and housing than to swish it away in the search for one haul—an immediate cash return of gold. The picture shows the high-pressure jet from a pipe, scouring soil away.
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Forest and Bird, Issue 38, 1 November 1935, Page 15
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