MINING IN CANADA.

Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 136, 11 June 1934, Page 9

MINING IN CANADA.

NEW ZEAEANDER'S SUCCESS. The director of one of the largest mining companies. of its kind in Canada, Lieutenant-Colonel G. Crtficksliaiik, arrived by the Aorangi to-day to'visit the land of his birtli, which he left in 1808. A metallurgist by profession, Lieut.Coloncl Cruickshank is director of the Consolidated Mining and Smelting Company, Trail, British Columbia, which, ho said, mined some 400 tons of electrolytic zinc a day, and a similar quantity of lead. The company also handled gold, silver, copper and phosphates. Its central mines were known as the Sulivan, in Kimberley, 80 miles from Trail. Lieut.-Colonel Cruickshank said that the boom in the price of gold and other minerals had been a great help to all mining. He thought that the present price of gold would keep up. Another factor that Avas assisting his Dominion out of the depression was the lumber trade, which was doing better than for some time. Enlisting at the outbreak of the Great War, Colonel Cruickshank went over to France as a lieutenant with the 54th Canadian Expeditionary Force. He saw active service at various sectors of the Western Front, including the Somme. He was wounded at Vimy and later transferred as a major to the Canadian Railway Troops, remaining in France until the armistice.

Lieut.-Col. Cruickshank, who is accompanied by his .wife,- is a son of the late Mr. William Cruickshank, of Auckland. The present Dean of Dunedin, the Rev. Craig Cruickshank, who was vicar of St. Mark's Church, Remuera, is his cousin._