"FIGHTING CHANCE"

Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 74, 29 March 1933, Page 5

"FIGHTING CHANCE"

RELIEF FOR THOUSANDS

GOLD PROSPECTING

The importance of goldmining operations on the West Coast as a means ot lifting part of the burden of unemployment relief from the /Unemployment Board "svas emphasisod by- the deputychairman of the board (Mr.; J. S. J.essep) in. the ; course of an/ interview- at, Gisborne. Mr. Jessep has.. just' returned ;from an' extended y^Bit to .the "Weil Coast, where' he iyas| engaged in organ; isjng goldmining operations bn sound lines. ; '■~'■•"■ ■•■."'■■'": '?'['' '■ ,:i

I 'All county council's' throughout tip "West Coast area, he said, .had taken. qver the .supervision^ of •goldminingi Skilled supervisors; men experienced in mining, had been appointed with the. approval of the Unemployment Board to superintend men-who wished, to fako' Tip gold prospecting, and as a result oiL_ the board's activities in this area (re- / ports _the "Kew Zealand" Herald's'"' correspondent) Mr, Jessep was advised from Wellington that drafts of men are leaving every week for Collingwpqd, Kelson; Murchison, and other areas. Supervisers also have ; instructional . duties, and • inexperienced men.....aro •taught all they require to know. The ■ men. are/ given definite areas for their operations and are.' shown how; to go i about the work. • "• .

"If results on. the "West Coast folloir on similar lines to those achieved in Cenj tral. Otago," said. Mr> Jessep, "thej : [should give several thousand men a I fighting chaiiee to gain independent^ The Unemployment Board now has over 2000 prospectors.at work in the South Island, and regularly each week some of them reach the stage -where they, wiasufficient gold to relieve their".fellnwcitizens of the responsibility of finding relief for them through the Unemployment Board." , . . ' .-. "'