GOLD!
FIERCE RUSH TO SCENE OF LUCKY FIND NUGGET WEIGHS 20 OUNCES M ELBOURNE, Sunday. An opossum trapper, Mr. Arthur Goltz, picked up a nugget of gold weighing about 20oz two days ago in a forest reserve near Tarnagulla, 32 miles from Bendigo. The neighbourhood formerly was famous for rich claims from which fortunes were won. Mr. Goltz wqs on his way home from a trapping excursion when he noticed the gold showing. A rush for the locality has now set in. Motor-cars, lorries, and horsedrawn vehicles, all loaded with men supplied with picks and axes, are being frantically driven to the spot. Hundreds of acres of virgin ground are available.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1041, 4 August 1930, Page 9
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111GOLD! Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1041, 4 August 1930, Page 9
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