GOOSE AND THE GOLDEN EGG.
Mr A. Williams, grocer., of Ballarat East, purchased during Christmastide a goose from Mrs Jones, Ballarat North. The bird, was killed for Christmas dinner, arid its crop on being opened was found to contain what a miner would describe as '-'good gold." Altogether tlivr/vvere 30 large specimens of gold in the crop of the goose summit Uv Williams states, to cover a 2/ 'piece. The royal metal had evidently been picked u P by the bird when feedIng on the slimes from old alluvial diggings in the neighbourhood. There the golden bird was takon and it is considered likely that many, if not all of them, had during their wanderings .among the old diggings feasted on the precious metal. Mrs Jones has not yet been informed whether the 29 other Christmas geese have been "prospected" by the respective purchasers, who reside in various parts of the distr-ict.
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Taihape Daily Times, Issue 219, 1 February 1917, Page 6
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152GOOSE AND THE GOLDEN EGG. Taihape Daily Times, Issue 219, 1 February 1917, Page 6
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