REEFTON NOTES

Grey River Argus, 10 February 1931, Page 7

REEFTON NOTES

(Our Own Correspondent.)

REEFTON, Feb. 9. Miss Hall, Nelson, has been appointed probationer at Reefton D.H. School, ami arrived by Saturday s car, taking up her new duties to-day. Air A. Anderson, of Dargaville, a former Reefton. resident, is here on a visit. Mr E. Dollimore, of Sydenham, arrived on Saturday to visit old friends here. Mr Dollimore has retired from the Post and Telegraph Department on superannuation. He purposes visiting Lyell and Murchison, with which district he is very familiar, before reluming South. Miss A. Lee. who has been on an extended holiday in the North Island, has returned to Reefton. Mr J. McCrea. formerly a well known miner at Globe mine, is on a, visit to Reefton. Mr McCrea was em-i ployed at the hydro-electric works at Hastings. Great regret was felt at the death of Air W. F. Brett, County Engineer, on Saturday evening. He was only taken ill on Tuesday. On Thursday afternoon it was deemed expedient that he be operated upon for appendicitis. and he appealed to bo doing fairly well, but, his heart failing, he passed quietly away. Mr Brett was the chily son of Mr Walter Gervoise Corrigan Brett, barrister, of Calcutta, India, and was born there on 15th June. 1862. He was sent to England to be educated, and attended the Brighton College at Brighton. Coming to New Zealand in the ship British Queen he landed at Port Chalmers in 1883. After a short stay he left for Hokitika, and did his first professional work with the Rpss United Gold Mining Company soon after his arrival. He was ti en for some years with the Humphreys Gullv Sluicing Company prior to ami after the Consolidated i Gold Alines of N.Z. taking it over. He I next was on the staff of the Midland • Railway <jßmpa‘;iy from the time they • started operations until the Govern- | ment took over the works. Shortly af-1 ter this the Brunner disaster took| I place, and Air Brett was employed to ( • survey the workings on behalf of the j I Government, and was one of the first j to enter the mine after the disasterlie came to Reef ton at the incept iiM ' of the Consolidated Goldfields group 'of mines, and worked wit n the first f general manager. Air F. L. Foster. Air I Brett also surveyed the Progress waiter race and aerial, as well •as the ■shaft in the Energetic mine, the lat- | ter being a work that necess.fated the Imo t minute calculation, in which he ■ was correct to the inch, the meet- | ing of both shaft and uprise. Upon ■ the resignation of the late Air E, B. iGarveu in June, .1902 Air Brett was nppo uted Engineer to the Inangahua h’oiiiity Council, a"I e fi led that Joslit •. ever since. During his residence , in Reefton, Air Brett carried out pravjt tally all the surveying <>u the Reef--1 ton mining field, doing a lot of work | for the Big River Al ine, Bourke’s | Creek Coalfields, and other mines, and 1 his death is a great loss to the field. 1H • was a member of the Reeftun .i'jcke.v Club Committee, and other 1 sporting bodier, as well as being a f.shing enthusiast, while his very i amiable and gentleman’y qualities endeared him to all. He is survived by a widow and four children. Airs W. G re Purler of Reefton; Airs Sydney R. Oliver, of Okato; Wilfred L Brett. 1 Bank of X Z., Christchurch; and Walter W Brett, Blackwater Alines, Waii uta. T e interment will take place I to-morrow afternoon, the tune al leavi ing St. Stephen’s Church at 1.30 o’clock I for the Suburb; *ii Cemetery. • I The funeral of the late Air Fred Rose took place this afternoon, when :1 I large number of mourners attended. The se vice at the graveside in the i Suburban Cemetery was conducted by Rev. W. Bell. The deceased was a • single man and a native of Brighton, land though a sick man for a long I time past, has been ihi the hospital only

The .Alexander Alines report for January states the intermediate level north of Ale Kay No. I AV in ze has been extended 17 feet on reef 34 feet. The face shows 24 inches of fairly clean tone on the foot wall and the same width of mixed country and quartz on j the hangibg wall. Average width samIcd 48 inches, va’ue 47/(5 per ton. On 'he intersection of McKay winze, two I men were employed for a few shifts | and 8 feet driven on stone 6 inches in w : dt '! value 35/7. This s’tone has now cut out and work has been discontinued for the present. At the winze below intermediate (McKay) the lode is looking very strong underfoot in the intermediate level. A winze was started 14 feet north of No. 1 Winze and : s down 9 feet on ore of an average width of 30 inches, value 42/5. There being insufficient faces to secure stogie for the Battery, the men at the McKay level were started on the outcrop between No. 1 and 2 winzes, and are now in 34 feet from the surface <>n reef of a width of 30 inches, value 29/-. In No. 1 Mullocky Creek [level a small amount of stoping has | been carried out on reef averaging 22 'inches in width, value 57/5. The Battery crushed 150 tons of stcAie for a return of 44 ozs. 19 dwts of melted gold by amalgamation, a'hl 121 tons lof sands were cyanaled for 42 ozs. 6 , dwts. -of bullion ; the total estimated |value being £285 (exclusive of premium on goal, which will be approx--1 imateiv £3O),