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YIELDS OF COMPANIES. Blmu Flat (West Coast).—Week ended April 39: Total of 8340 i! from 37,096 yard* in 106 hours. Okarito (Westland). —The secretaries of the Okarlto Five Mile Beach Gold Dredging Company. Limited, report a wash-up of 21os 14dwt as the result of 123 noun' dredging. This is the first return which has been published for many months, as It is only within recent weeks that the dredge has reached gold-bearing ground. Only small returns have been obtained during the last few weeks, but the return last week may be regarded as a fair indication of the value of the ground now being dredged. Blackball Creek Dredge.—The return last week was 320z. Moonlight Goldfields (West Coast).—The wash-up on the company's claim on May 2 was 28oz 7dwt for IS hours' sluicing. Gllleiple't Beach.—t4oz in 134 hours from 16.900 yards. Clutha River.—lo6oz in 132 hours.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXII, Issue 107, 8 May 1941, Page 4
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