GOLDMINING AT KARORI.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 1247, 23 January 1896, Page 34

GOLDMINING AT KARORI.

The report of the City Reserves Committee presented at the meeting of the City Council last week contained a clause to the effect that the committee have considered, with reference to goldmining at Karori, the application of Messrs H. F. Logan and J. E.Wearne, who had forwarded particulars of the trial made by the Auckland School of Mines of material sent for analysis, and had asked for a lease of certain portions of the waterworks reserve. The committee had also received verbal application from Messrs J. Badcock, H. C. Bowman and C. Farrell for lease of Section No. 1, as they proposed to work the section together, and erect a stamping battery. The committee therefore asked the Council to decide whether or not the work shall be allowed to go on, as the permission already granted for leave to prospect extended only to the 31st December. Should the Council decide in the affirmative, the committee would then be able to make a recommendation as to the persons to whom leases should be granted. Councillor Fraser having moved the adoption of the report, Councillor Harris moved, as an amendment, that the clause be referred back to the Public Works Committee, and in the meantime expert evidence be obtained whether there is likely to be any injury done to the reservoir or the property of the Council in allowing goldmining on their property. It would not pay the Corporation for the sake of what gold could be got there to allow their property to be ruined. Councillor Tatum seconded the amendment, which was carried.