DREDGING IN NEW SOUTH WALES. TO THE EDITOR.

Otago Witness, Issue 2416, 28 June 1900, Page 20

DREDGING IN NEW SOUTH WALES. TO THE EDITOR.

Sir, — A line to iet you know how we arc goiny aliead with dredging. All along the river banks you see nothing but pegs for dredging claims, but we have not got down to such a , fine point as the iron-bound lules of Otago. So long as it is a stick it is all that is wanted. 1 may say in this district there are' about 40 cb edges in course of cofistiuction. , There is one improvement that would work splendidly on such a dredge as the G-olden Beach, v/hcre the silt prevented them from working their ground — viz., a silt elevator. It is fitted Vrhere there are return tables, and instead oi discharging the silt into shutes and then overboard, it is fitted so as to mn into a large trough. About ten large buckets work this, lift it up out of the trough, and deliver it into a shute, and then into the elevator on top of the lough stuff. I have described it as nearly as possible. — I am, etc., i JOHN MALONEY, ! I Dredgemasfcer. ' 1 Marlowe, via Braidwood, New South Wales, June 11. [We insert Mr Maloney's address in full, as probably some interested in dredging may wish to write to him for further particulars about the silt elevator.— Ed.]