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Timaru Herald, Volume XIC, Issue 13397, 21 September 1907, Page 3

In a paper read at the annual meeting of the Wellington Industrial Association, dealing with dredging in Otago, Mr Samuel Brown spoke of the rise and decline of the industry, mentioning as an stance of the latter, that recently he had walked aboard one dredge, now rotting, which originally must have cost oyer £6OOO. Shares" in one company which were worth £25, were now only quoted at £2. Dredging in Otago was a fast dying business, sluicing was already gone, the population which followed its introduction had also disappeared, and all the way up to Queenstown could be eeen the remains of dredges. It was a wonder that a report was not, obtained from a competent authority on the irrigation of centra! Otago. "a." with a proper water mppl;/ there were hundreds of thousands of acies of land which could be made to profitably maintain a large population. It would, in hi? opinion, be infinitely better to do this than to ask that the railway should 1» continued through a rocky gorge where there was no traffic. ! Woods' Great Peppermint Cur» for font's and Coldt nsrer fail». Is 6d fcai 8» 6d....