Kōrero: Gold and gold mining

Ōkārito

Ōkārito

This 1869 work, ‘Okarita, a digging township’, by William Cooper depicts the small West Coast port of Ōkārito. Many diggers arrived on the West Coast by boat. By December 1865, Ōkārito township had 33 stores serving the miners who were digging the black-sand beaches. ‘Everybody who does not dig sells grog, and everybody who digs drinks copiously’, reported one correspondent.

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Alexander Turnbull Library
Reference: A-104-049
Chromolithograph by William Marshall Cooper

Permission of the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa, must be obtained before any re-use of this image.

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Te tuhi tohutoro mō tēnei whārangi:

Carl Walrond, 'Gold and gold mining - West Coast', Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, http://www.TeAra.govt.nz/mi/artwork/8611/okarito (accessed 19 March 2024)

He kōrero nā Carl Walrond, i tāngia i te 12 Jun 2006