THOUGHTS FOR THE TIMES.
Tin: Wi:sTi,.v.Ni> Pioni:i:u. “There was no royal road to wealth in Westland- in fact there was no real road at all in those early days when the first few hundred pro-pectors dispersed over the country ! >t Westland the seeker after gold was faced with a succession nl hard-hips - enough to deter all but- the very stoutest hearts. The country "awc.llnig't impassable. while natural food supplies were practically nonexistent, for even the Maoris found fern root hardly sulfieient to -usiaiu thorn in the inhospitable ion-i and mountain regions. Ri-k- and armdents were the daily fare of the .idventurer ‘who sought the preciuunielal in Westland. Death reaped a plentiful harvest and the names of his victims are legion. From I iarrop's "lioinanr-e of Westland.”
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Hokitika Guardian, 8 January 1924, Page 2
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126THOUGHTS FOR THE TIMES. Hokitika Guardian, 8 January 1924, Page 2
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