WARDEN’S COURT

Southland Times, Issue 22040, 13 June 1933, Page 3

WARDEN’S COURT

SITTINGS AT GORE. Sittings of the Gore and Waikaia Warden’s Courts were held at Gore yesterday, Mr H. J. Dixon, S.M., presiding. Prospecting licenses were granted to the following applicants: —Southland Prospecting Company, Ltd., for 100 acres Wendon district; Charlotte Margaret Chamberlain, William Foulkes and Thomas Moffatt, 30 acres at Waikaia; Flora Campbell Fraser, 60 acres Goldfields Reserves, adjacent to Sections 7, 8 and 16, Blk. XL, Otara Survey District; Chalmers William Thomson, 33 acres Haldane Estuary; Rewa Throp, 60 acres Goldfields Reserve, adjacent to Section 1, Block 1, and Section 8 and 9, Block IL, Otara Survey District: Roy Henderson Fraser, 13 acres Goldfields Reserve, adjacent to Section 1, Block 1, Otara Survey District. John Milne was granted a license for two years for a water race of three heads at Section 7, Block XL, Otara Survey District. Mr R. B. Bannerman appeared m support of an application by the Nokomai Gold Mining Company for a special alluvial claim for 19 acres m the Nokomai district. No objection was lodged, but Mr N. Watson appeared on behalf of the trustees of the property. He said that the trustees had no objection to a license being granted provided the company made a sheep track to replace the one which would be destroyed in the mining operations. Mr Bannerman said that he was instructed that the existing sheep track was being lost by river erosion and would need to be replaced by the trustees and further that the license did not cover the land over which the trustees desired the track to be made. The application was recommended for consent and costs 27/6 were allowed the applicants for the special visit of a principal of the company who attended the hearing.