MENACE TO MINING.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 30, 6 February 1928, Page 6

MENACE TO MINING.

EFFECT OF MINISTERIAL

(To the Editor.)

It will be remembered that spondence recently appeared in n®' under the above heading j t w Star* that most mining privileges had re^l" made, "subject to tho Minister's y to such terms and conditions as SHr- 104 chose to impose." In a case that reported it was shown that th« Uter imposed by the Mincer were in flict with section ITS of the Mining 2?J£; states that a mining privilege is . interest, whereas the Minister ovJL section by prohibiting anv except with his consent, f have sJI * to a certain large dredging claim whidf pany is now negotiating for a dr'^™/-L?®* into tens of thousands of condition is endorsed on its titlo "t \ M ® e brought to my not:ce an over 100 acres, and on looking find that a special quartz claim of owr till acres is likewise subject to the sent and conditions, so that I am Z to leave it alone, since the conditions title valueless. It , s an area require mass production, and the odv 22 who can tackle these propositions great mining corporations, which aLi • millions If I take it up and bring £ notice of the only people who the Minister, who neither finds the examines or proves it, nor does anything® ever to produce it as an asset, is goinir t« * tate the terms of its disposal. The property is then known. As it ifS! it is known to only two people and it remain so till this legislation is altered. FINISHED.