After many interviews, I discovered that James Buckley’s father was an early Otago goldminer who worked in a fair number of Otago’s goldfields before settling in Southland where he prospected at the Orepuki Gold Site.
When we heard the chopper flying down the valley, it was all go – running back to the bags, putting as much as we could in the pod and the rest in the back with Dad.
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