GOLD ON THE WEST COAST. Sir-In his récent*"talk Douglas Cresswell was surely in error when he gave the year of discovery of gold on the West Coast as 1864. Condliffe’s History of New Zealand also gives that year, as does the New Zealand Oficial Year Book. John Rochfort, surveyor, found gold on ‘the Buller River in November, 1859, five years before the date given by Mr, Cresswell-and there are said to be earlier discoveries than Rochfort’s. One by Tarapuhi is recorded in the Nelson Examiner of April 17, 1858. Both these finds were made in Nelson province. In August, 1861, gold was being worked in the Waimangaroa by about 60 diggers, mostly Maoris, and in the same year payable gold was being won in the
Inangahua.
CANTNEL
(Gisborne).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 20, Issue 495, 17 December 1948, Page 5
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