GOLD MINING IN WESTLAND.
LONDON COMPANY FORMED. HOKITIKA, August 6. Park and Murdock, solicitors, have received a cablegram from Mr Thomas Hamer, formerly Dominion Under-secretary of Mines, now in London, intimating that the preliminary work of organising a mining company to work the Hohonui goldfields (North Westland) is now completed. The working capital is underwritten, and tenders are authorised to be called to complete the water supply proposition for hydraulic sluicing over an extensive elevated field. Seven miles of race arc already cut, but, an additional nine miles are necessary to tap the Hohonui River and to ensure s permanent supply of water for works on a large scale. The work immediately to be undertaken will run into five figures. Those familiar with the goldfields have given veiy favourable reports of the prospects of under taking operations, as is proposed, on a large scale.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3519, 23 August 1921, Page 24
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