Mining Terms.

Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20223, 6 February 1934, Page 6

Mining Terms.

Dear Sir.—Mr E. J. Howard gets mixed up in mining terms. He refers to the Kawarau as being the richest tail race in the world. If he thinks there is gold in it he should call it a sluice box. There is something wrong if much gold gets into a tail race. It is a tail race all right. All the gold that could be got out of it would not pay interest on the cost of damming the lakes. And the damming ot the lakes for irrigation purposes would not pav interest on the cost of construction. On one occasion Mr Howard *®riouslv told your readers he could dam the two lakes with one dam. Well, he did not know much about them. Instead of private enterprise being the old man of the sea to Otago Central, it is just the other way about. Otago Central has got more money from private enterprise and from the public by the form of public works than all the gold that was ever got there would pay for. It is a case of distant fields being green. Mr Howard would do better to do some thinking about his own electorate and _ lea'® Otago Central to carry on as best it can. The drilling to prove the results of ge<> physical reports is much cheaper, and much more sensible, than damming tne lake, which would be nothing short of folly.—l am. etc.. OLD CENTRALITE.