DREDGE ORDERED.

Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20274, 7 April 1934, Page 7

DREDGE ORDERED.

Maori Gully Company’s Plans. A contract has been entered Into by the directors of the Maori Gully Gold Dredging Company for the construction of a dredge to work the company's claim at Kokiri (West Coast). The dredge will be an entirely new machine, with ladder, tumblers, bucket line, etc., to be provided by Hadfield’s, the wellknown English steel manufacturers. The bucket line will be of the close-linked type, and will comprise 71 buckets, made of manganese steel. The machine will dredge to a depth of 3 5 feet, and will have a capacity of 50,000 cubic yards a. month. An immediate start will be made with the execution of the contract. Access to the claim is especially favourable, as the plant will be transferred by Stratford and Blair’s tramline from the railway at Stillwater to the dredge site, a distance of a mile and a half. The contract also provides for the erection of a power transmission line to the dredge, which will be electrically operated. The claim was very closely bored, 38 holes being put down, revealing average values of Is 6d a yard over an average depth of 24 feet to 25 feet. A heavy proportion of the capital of the company is held on the West Coast and in Christchurch.