Update August 8th 2022

The site is slowly getting substance. Today an article has been added on the Shotover Claim. Take no notice of the post dates. Blogger is designed to put the latest posts at the top and when one wishes to put them in the opposite order as I do (oldest first), this can only be achieved by using false earlier and earlier posting dates. So, the articles to date are: 

     “The Unofficial Guide to the Thames Goldfield - Introduction” 
 1. "Analysing the first photographs of the Thames Goldfield” 
 2. “Lest we Forget - The Shotover Claim that started the Thames Gold-rush” 

     Coming Soon 
 3. “Tararu Creek - an Artery for Goldmining in the Valley” 



Commissioner Mackay to the Diggers “PROCEED, GOOD PEOPLE, WITH YOUR BUILDINGS AND IMPROVEMENTS, CONTINUE TO BEHAVE YOURSELVES, AND AT THE END OF SEVEN YEARS I WILL RAISE EVERYBODY’S RENT.” (Enthusiastic Cheering) 
 Undated and unsigned cartoon published in an unidentified edition of 'Punch or the Auckland Charivari' dated 1868

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