DREDGING MATERIAL FOR ABROAD.

Otago Witness, Issue 3382, 8 January 1919, Page 22

DREDGING MATERIAL FOR ABROAD.

The Waitomo, which sailed from Dunedin last week for Sydney, carried a considerable quantity of dredging machinery for tho Straits Settlements. Messrs Joseph Sparrow and Sons shipped 30 buckets to the order of the Siamese Tin Company. These buckets, which were built entirely of steel plates, with heavy forged runners, and bars, each weighed 15cwt, and nothing approaching them in weight in the same line has previously been made in the dominion. These are of special shape, calculated to easily discharge sticky clay, etc. The bottom plates are iia. thick, and the strengthening side plates' l are also |in in thickness. _ The lips are lim thick, and lOin wide, with a heavy half-lip attached to the outside. # A boiler weighing 9i tons was shipped in the same vessel by Messrs Sparrow and Sons. This boiler is for the Dipang Mines (Ltd.), which is likewise engaged in tin dredging. The Golden Hun dredgei which was dismantled by Mr It. T. Stewart, and overhauled by Messrs John M'Gregor and Son, was also shipped on the Waitomo. The dredge has been secured for the Dipaaig Mines (Ltd.). Another old Otago dredge which has been obtained for work in a new sphere is tha Koputai, which used to operate < at Wai. kaia. The Koputai has been dismantled and shipped to Auckland, where she' is to bo employed by the Auckland Gravel Company on the sea coast. Tho gravel will be screened by the dredge into varying grades, and will be utilised for building purposes in Auckland.