Tho Hon J. CJ. Coates, who was Act-ing-Defence Minister during Sir James Alien’s absence on the Samoan Parliamentary trip, will, it is understood, assume control, temporarily at all events, ~f defence matters, when Sir James leaves New Zealand at the end of the present month to take over his duties as High Commissioner, London. The “Wairarapa Daily News” advises that an experienced prospector has been prospecting in the Tara runs for the past few weeks, and like all his predecessors has found gold and silver-hearing (luartz. This ho has sent to Wellington, and the result of the assay is reported to be very satisfactory, further than this, the prospector has discovered a huge deposit, estimated at thousands of tons of white marble. /This find is reported to he in the vicinity of Mount Holdsworth, some distance further on.
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Hokitika Guardian, 23 April 1920, Page 3
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