Opportunities for Others.

Plenty of gold-winning scope remains for other prospectors and fossickers, who are assisted by the Unemployment Board and the Mines Department. The Board grants 30/- to a married man and 15/- to a single man provided they are registered and drawing relief pay. In all cases such workers are required to sign a guarantee that they will undertake to refund 10 per cent, of the value of the gold which they win until the amount of their subsidies is repaid to the Board. About 1600 men were working on that basis recently in various gold-bearing districts.