THE OLD TIME.
COLLECTING THE "CBESTNUTS” AS HISTORY. (Pm Press Association.) We.li.jgmu, I ,et night. Specking at Masteit n ths Premier expressed the opinion that means should bo taken, e.o it was tco Juts, to acquire from old inhabitants of the colony the records and experiences thoy hud in their possessicn for purpc.es ol wriiiug in an interesting form a Irs’ory of various districts. His idor was to -end someone, paid by the State, to the homes in which they live, take down n record of their experiences, and embody them in the history of the eolepy. The same system might, he added, be employed in questioning old miners of the West Coast so as to get the result of their early prospeotiDgs, and combine that local knowledge with scienfie explanations now being oarried out,
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXII, Issue 1732, 25 April 1906, Page 2
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