GOLD MINING

Evening Post, Issue 149, 20 December 1935, Page 9

GOLD MINING

ON THE WEST COAST

BIG DEVELOPMENTS PENDING

(By Telegraph—Press Association.) - PALMERSTON N., This Day. "There is a million, and a half of Australian capital waiting to be invested in gold dredging on-the West Coast of the South Island. Th^ opportunity is too good to miss," stated the Hon. ,R. Semple, Minister of Public Works, in an interview. He added that after a short rest in Wellington he would be proceeding to the South Island with the Hon. P. C. Webb, Minister of Mines. They would go into the question of opening negotiations assisted by information obtained from the results Of boring in the Kumara district. ~ .. One of the largest dredges of its kind in the world would be built, said Mr. Semple. He was anxious to get this capital into New Zealand and would not waste any time. He conveyed the hint that big developments are pending in the gold-mining industry on the West Coast.

Three second offenders for drunkenness, Patrick Sullivan, Michael Cooney. and Hearstell Thompson, all labourers by occupation, were each fined 10s in default forty-eight hours' imprisonment, when they appeared before Mr. •T. H. Lux Cord, S.M., in the Magistrate's Court today.