“GOLD” MAKERS TURN ATTENTION TO WEEDS

Manawatu Times, Volume LV, Issue 7179, 28 March 1930, Page 7

“GOLD” MAKERS TURN ATTENTION TO WEEDS

4 Company of Three GREAT CLAIMS FOR CHROMADYNE FORCE “Times” Special. CHRISTCHURCH, Last Night. Sinco tho time several months ago when it was announced that a Christchurch syndicate claimed to have made gold and to havo discovered a power named chromadyne, little has been heard of tho operations of tho syndicate. In Wellington yesterday a company styled Chromadyne Ltd. , was registered with headquarters at 116 Hereford street, Christchurch. _ Including research in electricity and manufacture of scientific apparatus, the objects of the company arc very comprehensive. The authorised capital is £IO,OOO, in £1 shares, tho subscribers being Herbert Walter Atack, solicitor, of Christchurch, 8000 shares; William Henry Shaw Highes, solicitor, of Wellington, 1000 shares; and Walter Scddon Clayton, company manager, of Christchurch, 1000 shares. The astounding claim of tho syndicate, whose principal experimenter was Mr G. P. Aston, was investigated by Dr. E. Mardscn, secretary of' the Department of Scientific Industrial Research, but the result of his inquiry into the gold-making claim has not boon made known, though the experimenters assert that the tests wore satisfactory. Experiments were carried out in an elaborately equipped laboratory in Lichfield street, but tho plant has been removed now.

The experimenters have concentrated their labours in the past l'cw months on the development of the energy chromadyno and tho improvement of plant. Many avenues open to the employment of chromadyne in tho destruction of matter, havo been explored. It is claimed that it has been found possible through experiments at New Brighton, to destroy tho lupin plant to tho roots by tho use of chromadyne. The claim is made too, that experiments carried out by a member of tho syndicate in Australia, proved that it was successful in destroying prickly pear. Experiments into the properties of chromadyne as an anaesthetic and in other ways have been subordinated in the meantimo in favour of other demonstrations.

A reporter was assured to-day that no outside capital would bo admitted to the company. Mr. Clayton says he will bo closing his sports goods business in Cashel street a ; t an early date, and Mr. Atack is relinquishing his business as a practising solicitor.