======================== Gold Mining Towns in Old NZ ========================
RESOURCES:
©Dawes, Trevern & Anna., (1987). "Kiwi Curiosities." Pacific Publishers,
Auckland, NZ., Pg 38.
©Murray, J.S. & R.W., (1978)., "Costly Gold. Clutha riches & their human
toll." A.H & A.W. REED. LTD.,Wellington, NZ.
©Nolan, Tony., (1976)., "Historic Gold Trails of Nelson & Marlborough."
A.H & A.W. REED. LTD.,Wellington, NZ.
©Mobil, NZ. Guide to Towns and Cities.
The following are headed by the name of the general region of the gold mine.
Actual place names of small towns are listed alongside the '*' asterisk.
Dates of when gold was discovered, if known, are in '( )' brackets.
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NORTH ISLAND:
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Coromandel Peninsula to Waikato Heads:
Coromandel (1852)
Kuaotunu
Thames (1867)
Waihi (1878-1955)
Tapu
Neavesville
Paeroa
(Mackaytown,
Karangahake,
Waikino,
Owharoa,
Waitawheta,
Waitekauri - now ruins)
East Coast:
Te Puke (near Tauranga)
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SOUTH ISLAND:
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Nelson:
Collingwood
Waikakaho
Aorere
Lyell
Owen Valley
Deer Park (outside Canvastown)
Linkwater (outside Picton)
Wakamarina
Baton
Wangapeka
Mahakipawa
Anatoki
the Tablelands
Taitapu
The Howard
Westport:
Westport
Carter's Beach
Totara Flat
Addisons
Charleston
Barrytown
Murchison
Reefton:
Reefton
Black's Point
Merrijigs
Waiuta (-1952)
Old Alexander Gold Mine
Otago:
Alexandra (in operation until 1950's):
Tuapeka (Lawrence)
Dunstan (Clyde)
Conroy's Gully
Lawrence:
Blue Spur
Wetherstons (ruins)
Munro's Gully
Evans Flat
Waitahuna Gully
Waipori
Gabriel's Gully (outside Blue Spur)
Little Hummock (Old Nenthorn)
Roxburgh
Gorge (Chamounix) Creek
Tevoit
Ettrick
Miller's Flat
Clyde (formerly known as Dunstan, or Hartley Township)
Manuherikia:
Graveyard Gully Rd (Cemetery)
Ophir
Matakanui
Dry Bread
Cambrian
(Welshman's Gully - lignite coal
Vinegar Flat
Fiddler's Hill)
St Bathan's
Ida Valley
Bendigo
Maniototo:
Kyeburn Valley
MacRaes Flat
Clutha River (Balclutha):
Lowburn
Cromwell
Bannockburn:
Quartzville
Carricktown
Queenstown:
Arrowtown
Cardrona
Macetown
Skippers
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BURYING THE GOLD DIGGERS
Some of the headstones or graveyards, may have fallen into disrepair as
people migrated into towns and cities. Other miner's may have died while
travelling over the remote mountain passes in the South Island of New
Zealand.
The Lonely Graves:
At the end of the winter in 1865, William Rigney set off to inspect
a claim near Miller's Flat on the Clutha River. He found a young
man's body with a shivering dog sitting beside it. Rigney, sure
that this man would have had a mother, wife or girlfriend waiting
for him, dug a grave and cut a headstone out of pine into which he
burnt the following words, "Someone's Darling - Lies buried here -
1865." In 1903 he erected a stone slab behind the pine one. After
William Rigney died in 1912 he was buried beside "Someone's
Darling", his headstone read, "Here - Lies the Body of - William
Rigney - The Man Who Buried "Somebody's Darling". The two isolated
graves are known locally as The Lonely Graves.
Still other markers were placed beside the scene of death, such as at Albert
Town, beside the Clutha River where the following names are scrawled on a
stone wall:
* J.N.O. Gilbert, First death. 1861.
* W.M.McKinnon, Body lost in River, 1862.
* Alexr. Keith, 1863, 25.
* Phil Comarford, 1864, 27.
* J.E. Edmundson, 1873, Buried in Alexandra. Drowned
* Robt. Edwards, 36, 5 August 1879.
* Robt. H.Norman, first white child, born in Wanaka, 11 May 1861, 11
August 1923.
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