Advertiser (Adelaide, SA : 1931 - 1954), Saturday 25 February 1933, page 7


WHAT THE STATION HANDS MISSED

Discovery By Half Castes In Abandoned Shaft KALGOORLIE, February 24.

Last Thursday morning two hall- <*> caste prospectors decided to try their luck in an abandoned shaft, 9 feet deep, just inside the Yundamindera

Station boundary gate, on the road from Murxin Murrin. The station stockmen, when working in the vicinity, bad made a practice: of cooking their meals in the coolness of the short drive at the bottom of the shaft, and their feelings can be imagined when, after a couple of hours', work the half-castes were dollying 7 cvrt. direct, end, after lunch, struct; ore going over an ounce to the ton? The formation is about 3 feet wide,' and the prospects are fairly promising. :