THE LOST TRIBE
Apropos of the Lost Tribe in the hinterland of Nelson, mysteriously referred to by a Christchurch professor, a correpondenst, writing to “ T.D.H.” in the Wellington “ Dominion,” says that Air Seddori told him the real story: “Some of the Lost Tribe always had a fair supply of money or of whisky, which was the alternative currency. They were, in fact, remittance men of good families, whose relations never allowed them to starve so i'ong as they kept to the spot where the Lost Tribes dwelt. These men did a little desultory sluicing in quiet corners and the possession of a little bag of gold dust was not an uncommon thing. When one of this clan died in his shack, where was his gold dust? Nobody knew; it was a common belief that men of this community, sometimes educated men, habitually buried the little bag until somebody from a bank came round.
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Hokitika Guardian, 25 June 1927, Page 2
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153THE LOST TRIBE Hokitika Guardian, 25 June 1927, Page 2
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