LARGE GOLD DREDGE
Contract Let to Dunedin Firms By Telegraph—Press Association. Dunedin, April 20. The tender for the construction at Lowburn of what will be the largest gold dredge in New Zealand has been let to two Dunedin firms, A. and T. Burt and the Dunedin Engineering and Steel Company. The contract at present covers the supply and erection of tlie pontoons only, the material for which will come from Australia. The approximate weight of the dredge will be 700 tons. Its dimensions will be, length 176 feet, width 75 feet, depth 13 feet 6 inches. The plant as originally proposed by the company will be capable of dredging at least 3,500,000 cubic yards a year. The Austral New Zealand Mining Company, Ltd., is a New Zealand company registered in Christchurch with a capital of £005,000, and was formed in July of last year to acquire and work by bucket dredging gold-bearing lands in New Zealand. * The area to be worked is approximately 1600 acres in the Lowburn district.
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Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 175, 21 April 1937, Page 12
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