AMATEUR GOLD-DIGGER
GOLD IN THE RIVER. By Frederick W. G. Miller. A. H. & A. W. Reed, Wellington and in. ‘THIS is a good book, and could have been very good if the author had been a little less anxious to be bright. However, it is still good enough to be a safe recommendation to anyone who has ever seen the Molyneux river, or rocked a miner’s cradle, or dug or panned for alluvial gold. It is the story of a journalist who left Dunedin in the last big depression in the hope of discovering a new method of maintaining himself in the upper Molyneux gorge. His gold-digging experiences (panning, crad-| ling, and sluicing) are very well told, and those who know Central Otago will feel that his background is authentic. When he turns to social and cultural questions he is still easy to follow, but he is now a pleasant companion rather than a character. Like the author, the illustrator (T. H. Jenkin) has been a little too eager to entertain, but he does other things too.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 15, Issue 379, 27 September 1946, Page 15
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177AMATEUR GOLD-DIGGER New Zealand Listener, Volume 15, Issue 379, 27 September 1946, Page 15
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