MR. K. M. BARRANCE.
The death occurred in Blenheim on Saturday night of Mr. K. M. Barrance, mine manager of the Mahakipawa Goldflelds Company. Mr. Barrance was recognised as one of the most capable gold mining engineers in the Dominion, having spent practically all his. life in the industry. He received his technical education at the Otago School of Mines and was engaged on the Ross (West Coast) goldfields and in Auckland and also Australia before the war. He joined the New Zealand Tunnelling Corpe and held a prominent rank in that unit in France. He resumed his mining career after his return to the Dominion, and for some years was manager of the Alexander mine, near Reefton. >From there he' was appointed to the management of. the Mahakipawa mine, some years ago. Reports on quartz mining properties from Mr. Barrance were highly valued in the industry, as few . experts had such a combination of technical and practical experience, and his connection with mining was interrupted only during the war. He leaves a widow and four children. . ... - ~. . I
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Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 27, 1 February 1934, Page 22
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