Gold
nuggets (pictured right), a hand-drawn treasure map and 33-year-old audio of an old
gold searcher all featured at the book's launch at Nelson’s Suter Art Gallery on
Sunday evening.
The
event, organised by Craig Potton Publishing and Page & Blackmore,
celebrated publication of Paul Bensemann’s book “Lost Gold. The 100-year searchfor the gold reef of Northwest Nelson”. It drew visitors from around the top of
the South Island and as far south as Christchurch.
Investigative
author Nicky Hager and Craig Potton Publishing’s Executive Director and
Publisher Robbie Burton spoke of the decades of work by the author in
uncovering details of the secret search.
Bensemann,
a former Nelson Mail and NZ Press Association reporter, showed the audience samples
of gold he had found in the Nelson area, old maps and also a slideshow of
photographs collected in his more than 35 years of research.
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