NEW GOLD DREDGES
TWO TO BE BUILT WORK ON WEST COAST (Vz v Tress Association.) DUNEDIN, this day. At least two local engineering firms and a Christchurch company have tendered for a contract for the construction of two gold dredges, which are to be operated on the West Coast by an Australian company. Work is to lie undertaken by Government dredges which are to ;be built to the order of Alluvial Tin (Australia) Limited, and will probably he among the largest, ever constructed in New Zealand. They have been to work a tract. of, alluvial land a few miles Lo the. south of llokitika. The fabrication oT the pontoons and 1 the superstructure will he carried oul at the Adding!on railway shops, where, it is understood, preparations are now in hand to commence the work as soon as the necessary material is available.
It is expected that the total cost of the dredges, including machinery, will he between "£ISO,CCO and £2,00,000, but all of this amount will not be expended in New Zealand, as the driving and auxiliary machinery will lie import eel from the Old Country. The dredges are to be electrically driven, anil arrangements arc in train for the erection of a special line to convey the power required ior their operation from Lake Coleridge.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19104, 27 August 1936, Page 3
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