Ohinemuri Goldfield.

Thames Star, Volume XV, Issue 4863, 11 August 1884, Page 2

Ohinemuri Goldfield.

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Pa;e¥6a, Saturday. /• At the usual meeting of the'Ohinemuri Mutual Improvement Society held in the hall here last evening Mr T. J-C. Shaw read a very interesting and carefully-prepared paper on the gold-mining industry, con* fining his remarks to the Hauraki Peninsula. He dealt with the subject from the discovery of gold at Coromandel in 1852 up till the present time. He illustrated the practical part of mining by means of diagrams which he had prepared for the occasion, and concluded by giving some very amusing reminiscences of life at the Thames in theearly days of itsdevelopment. Whilst upon this subject, it may not be out of place to say that the value of our mineral wealth and the pa?t its discovery and development have taken in advancing the colony and attracting valuable additions to our population cannot be over-estimated.. If the Government were to foster and aid the development of our mineral wealth, by cutting prospecting, tracks, making roads, and rewarding successful prospectors, much would be done to further our advancement. New fields are opened up, and large soms are paid to Government for 'leases, licenses, miners' rights, &c, and very often the districts so opened are almost entirely- neglected, or Kelse the necessary-works of assisting: the development of the same is done in such a slipshod manner as to be worse than useless. ■ Id theiface of this-neglect on the part of the General Government, itis pleasing to learn that the Thames County Council are fully alive to the fact that gold mining is the staple industry of their County, and, they are deserving of great credit for the manner in which they have responded to the calls made upon them of late in the matter of assisting mining enterprise in this district." v; - ;