Little prospect : subsidised gold prospecting, employment relief on the West Coast during the depression of the 1930s.

This thesis examines the origins and operation of the subsidised gold prospecting scheme. It also sets out to explain the significance of goldmining as a depression relief measure and to give some indication of the impact it made on the lives of those men who became the diggers of the 1930's. I...

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Main Author: Zwart, Peter Derk
Language:en
Published: University of Canterbury. Department of History 2010
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10092/4660

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