MAY QUEEN CO.'S APPLICATION FOR A SPECIAL CLAIM.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXI, Issue 9489, 19 April 1894, Page 6

MAY QUEEN CO.'S APPLICATION FOR A SPECIAL CLAIM.

■■ THE MINERS'. UNION OBJECTION. [FROM "; ocb' OWN CORRESPONDENT..] •■■ //'a .', # > • Thames, Wednesday. This company's applicabion for a special claim license; bo cover the four .licensed holdings now held by ib, is down for hearing at the ■* Warden's' Court bo-morrow, bub as "the plan for the same is nob yeb prepared, owing /to '.the,; absence ,of /the ; company's surveyor /elsewhere,:: the ,' application . will probably'. be adjourned for a forbnighb. -The following is /a ; . copy of the objection -laid by 'the secretary of the Miners' Union ■against the, granting of tho application, ib having been lodged at the Warden's Office to-day :—'" ."„,,' ' ' ■''■■'.■■.'■'■ l ■■ i" ; In the matter of an application for the granting of a special claim to the May Queen Gold Mining Company, Limited, I, Adam Thomson, of Thames, miner, and [ Secretary to the Thames Branch Amalgamated Miners' Association of Australasia, a body corporate registered under the Trade Unions Act, 1878. do hereby object to the granting of a special claim as applied for to the May Queen Geld Mining. Company, .Limited, and 'the? following are the, grounds of the objection :—l. That the granting of the special claim apSliedifor by the May Queen Gold Mining lompany, - Limited,v Would : retard the progress of the field and be seriously prejudicial to the mining interests of the Thames goldfield.?: 2.-That; the granting of such claim would be prejudicial to the miners of the Thames. •; - 3; That : tho. \ applicant i company own the whole of the interests now, applied for to be included in a special claim, and the | carrying :on of mining,: operations ..would not be • impeded 4by reason *of the said interests j; being 'sheld under /separate titles. 4. The ! applicant company has no capital available/ for the . development mof the \ said holdings, nor a have they any immediate: prospect of /getting any. -'5. The applicant company has not worked any of their said holdings since they acquired them, according .to the Mining Act and the regulations thereunder. -6. That the application for the said special claim is not made with a view to carry on legitimate/ mining operations, but - for! the purposes of speculation., 7. That there are at the present time several other special claims, upon the Thames goldfield. That the most of: the payable goldbearing area is confined to a small space, and the granting of ; the special claim now applied for would tie up nearly all the available gold mining area, s: to the great /detriment of the miners, and to the mining industry. 8. That applications were made-, during the year 1893 to entertain an ' application ■■ for a . special; claim over the interests now applied for, but the Warden refused to grant any such appli-; cation. Dated this 18th day of April, 1894.— (Signed). Adam -Thomson, number of miner's right2723.,--jJ>r^.^-'.: ; ; ■ c::--'"--...->. ...'■--»,-