Caitlin Cadogan
The Maori people in New Zealand did not discover gold first. Gold was discovered in New Zealand in the mid-19th century during the Otago Gold Rush. This discovery brought many European settlers to the country in search of gold.
Brooke Fyffe
maybe Ferdinand marcos
1852.
Jude Brandon Xerri 1770-1810
valerie adams . No! Wrong answer. Valerie Adams is a shot putter from New Zealand and was not the first person to win Gold Medal. The first person , ever, to win the Gold Medal was Leonidas Pyrgos of Greece. He won the medal in Fencing at the 1896 Olympic Games in Athens.
New Zealand's first Olympic gold medal was won at the 1928 Games in Amsterdam by Ted Morgan in boxing in the welterweight division.
The New South Wales government offered a reward of 10,000 pounds to the first person to find gold.
Early man found gold in rivers and probably used them as weapons
It was Jack Lovelock
the first person to discover gold was Jams W Marshall.
No.Surveyor James McBrien was the first recorded person to find gold in Australia, doing so near Bathurst, NSW in 1823.These early discoveries were kept secret for various reasons. Gold was first officially discovered in Australia in 1851, not far from Bathurst, New South Wales by Edward Hargraves.