LURE OF GOLD
SEARCH IN NEW SOUTH WALES SYDNEY, February 4. Men, old and young, bur especially; young fellows with a love of adventure and either out of employment or threat; ened with the noble order or the. "sack,” are turning un in large numbers at the Mines Department in Sydney and learning something of the art of the gold fossieker, before going out on the gold searching expeditions which threaten to become something of a craze. Among the modern Cortez anxious to go out and wrest from Mother Eartn its bidden wealth are several of Sydney's newspaper reporters. The argument of these prospective gold seekers is that, since work is about as impossible to find as a needle in a haystack, they might as well be living cheaply under tents in the bush, with the assist a nee of the Government, even if at the end of it all, they can show no more sold than in the fillings of their teeth.
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Hokitika Guardian, 14 February 1931, Page 5
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