MOTUEKA ELECTORATE

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIV, 2 December 1930, Page 4

MOTUEKA ELECTORATE

TOUR BY MINISTER VALUE OF .MINERAL DEPOSITS During his weekend visit to the Motu-eka-Takaka districts the Hon. A. J. Murdoch, Minister of Mines, conferred with Mr G. C. Black, M.l'., regarding the mineral potentialities of the Motueka electorate. The Minister made a tour of inspection of the Tarakohe Cement Works, Onakaka Iron Works and other places of interest. Mr Murdoch was favourably impressed with Onakaka, in which he sees great possibilities of future development. The Minister was also much interested generally in the mineral deposits in the North-west portion of the Island and made enquiries from local miners in that connection. He intends to take up immediately with the Unemployment Board tho matter of assistance to the mining industry by aid to prospect ing and otherwise. Mr Black suggested that to acquire the necessary local knowledge of the areas to which men should be sent out, a conference of all interested in mining in the Collingwood, Takaka, Motueka, Nelson, Murchison, Lyell, Karamea and Inangahua districts should be held and that officers of the Mines department and of the Geological branch of the Scientific and Industrial Research Department should attend. It is anticiEated that such a conference will be eld in Reefton early in the New Year and that possibly the Minister of Mines will preside.