CONVICT GOLD -

C.C. Hunt was responsible for opening up a track to what would become the goldfields and he had with him a party of convicts who were used as labourers for sinking wells.

The story is told that the convicts found some gold and hid it with a view to escaping and returning later to pick up their find.

From what we have read to date it appears as though there was an escape attempt but the convicts were re-captured and nothing more was heard about the gold. The government at the time was not at all keen on any gold discoveries as this would have led to people abandoning their work in settled areas and there was a shortage of labour as it was.

Is there buried, somewhere along Hunt's Track, a stash of convict gold? I suppose we will never know.

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