EVANS FLAT.
(To the Editor.)
Sir, — Having seen your letter from the Evans Flat correspondent in last week's issue of the " Tuapeka Times," T wish to correct him in some of his remarks. By the reading of his letter, he would have it to be understood that the Chinese are making what he terms "tucker," and that the Europeans are not. Now, I grant that some are not doing so well as they would like to do ; but at the same time, in justice to other parties on Evans Flat, there are some parties that are making more than tucker wages, and likely to do so for a good few years to come ; others again are prospecting, and have been doing so for the last few months. Your correspondent refers to the water race that is being brought in from the Beaumont. It certainly will be a great boon to the district which it is intended for, but I do not see how it will benefit the Flat, where there is abundance of water at present — unless he can suggest to the miners some new plan for getting a fall for ground sluicing ; if he can do this, it will be a fortune for him, and the whole of the Otago miners would be very grateful to him for the benefit he had conferred on them. — I am, &c, Miner. Evans Flat, September 25, 1871.
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Tuapeka Times, Volume III, Issue 190, 28 September 1871, Page 5
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