KAWARAU GOLD
WORKING BY DREDGE
(By Telegraph,)
(Special to "The Evening PttL")
DU> TEDIN, This Day. Although amalgamation pf all the claims oil the Kawarau is beyond possibility, the amalgamation of the dredge claim holders seems the best method of working, Individual companies cannot afford to purchase dredges, and the joining up of all interests is being urged. Options over o cpinplete dredging plant have been secured by the Jjady Ranfurly Compflpy, Pontoons will have to be built, and if the scheme is carried out the pontoons will be made in Dunedin, A dredge ready fpr working is estimated to cpst £18,000. That record gold-earning dredge, the Lady jtenfurly, which was burned some years ago, ni)d . which still lie* in the Kawaraii, had a ladder of 70ft, but the proposed dredge's ladder will be 90ft. The Jjady Ranfurly directors' nvpppgal is such that a cheap dredge cpufd be used for prospecting the whole five miles of itg dredging claims pn the fla* from the Molyneux River upwards. The dredge will be so designed as to work the banks when the river is high. ■
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Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 141, 18 June 1927, Page 8
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183KAWARAU GOLD Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 141, 18 June 1927, Page 8
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