GOVERNMENT HELPS.
IN SEARCH FOR COPPER,
(By Telegraph.—uwn Correspondent.)
WOODVILLE, this day.
It was announced at a public meeting in Woodville last night that the Minister of Mines had offered ,a subsidy of £500 towards -the cost of securing a geophysical survey by German scientists of the Maharahara copper field, in the prospecting of which the sum of £40,000 has already been expended by various companies. '
The total cost of geophysical survey is expected to be about fooOO. aud the public is being asked to subscribe £3000 to a prospecting company. If the .money is forthcoming, a start will be made with the survey early in January. i
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Auckland Star, Issue 265, 8 November 1929, Page 8
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