GOLD DREDGING.

Colonist, Volume XLVI, Issue 9963, 22 November 1900, Page 2

GOLD DREDGING.

WANGAPEKA AND COLLINGWOOD.

Mb Boxes, who is the agent for the j Wangapeka Dredging Company, a company that was floated at Wanganui, is at present in town, and he informs us that he is daily expecting to receive from Dunedin the specifications for the dredge pontoon, which will be built at Bush Eild, Wangapeka, — the top end of what is known as MoKae's Bun. As soon as the specifications are received tenders will be invited for the building of the pontoon. Arrangements have already been made for the carting of the machinery from Motupiko railway station to the dredge site, and the machinery, which will weigh about eighty tons, will all be here by January. It is confidently anticipated that the dredge will be at work in March next. We learn that a very satisfactory meeting of. the shareholders was held on Friday night last, when the report of Mr Lee, a Dunedin gentleman of wide experience, and a director of several Southern dredging oompanies, upon the Wangapeka properties was discussed. Mr Lee considered that further prospecting was unnecessary, so satisfied was he with the nature- of the country and the suitability of the ground. The report generally was of a highly favorable nature, we are informed.

) For the past few weeks Mr Boyes has been engnged in the Collingwood district, { in company with an assistant, examining / on behalf of a Wellington company as to the suitability of the Aorere for dredging. The company has secured an area, on part of which a dredge was erected some years ago. Mr Boyes is returning to Collingwood next Monday, and he intends taking with him a boring plant in order to test the depth of the wash in the river. Dr. Chappell, a director of the company, was expected to arrive from Wellington last night, and that gentleman will accompany Mr Boyes to Collingwood. It is believed that in a short time a dredge will be at work in the Aorere river.