THOUGHTS FOR THE TIMES
THE DISCOVERER. OF GABRIEL'S GULLY. If there is one of her pioneers who deserves to be remembered in Otago it is Gabriel Read. He never claimed ~ to b? the first- to discover gold in the province, but as Pyke says; “For all practical purposes lie must be lteld entitled to the first place. His claim to the position was two-fold. It was he who first gave life to gold-mining in Otago by practically demonstrating the existence of gold in payable quantities, and the valley in which, by. a strangely ’fortuitous combina-* tion of circumstances, he made his first assay bad never before been prosIwo ted by anyone. That Read was the first and only discoverer of the 'gully that bears his name is indisputable. That hei was induced to prospect tho locality by the account of Black Peter’s discoveries never has been, and cannot be, disputed.” —Otago Paper.
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Hokitika Guardian, 22 October 1930, Page 4
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