LUCKY GOLD STRIKE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 8 June 1938, Page 9

LUCKY GOLD STRIKE

FORTUNATE NEW ZEALANDER. KALGOORLIE (W.A.), May 27. Two years ago Mr F. J. Pass arrived here from New Zealand and was engaged as professional to the Kalgoorlie Golf Club. Later, he took up prospecting, and today he and a companion stand to win a fortune as a result of a lucky find. r This real romance began when an old truck which the men had bought for £l5 stalled at the foot of a rise about 30 miles west of Menzies, and as it was near dinner-time they decided to boil the billy. After the meal, Mr Pass walked up the hill with a sampling pick and knapped a quartz crop. The first stone that he broke contained free gold. The result of further investigation has led to the taking of an option over the area by a powerful English company, Goldfields Australian Development Co., Ltd., for £15,000.

When he left his employment with the Kalgoorlie Golf Club, Mr Pass carried on prospecting work for eight months without success. His funds exhausted, he took work at the Great Boulder mine to save enough for a second attempt. This time he was more successful, for he and his companion struck a patch at Mulgabbie which yielded £360 worth of gold from about a quarter of a sugar-bag of stone.

Mr Pass was on his third prospecting trip when he made the present discovery, which, if surface indications are borne out by further testing, will not only provide a handsome reward for the two prospectors but may also lead to the addition of another rich area to the goldfields of Western Australia.