MINING NEWS
WELLINGTON SHARE MARKET. Tn the mining market yesterday only one lino was quoted, that of Waihi Girand Junction, for which there were buyers at 15s. 3d. _ • o STOCK EXCHANGE. Sales—Union Steam, 43e.; Dominion Rubber, 375. (threo parcels). HAURAKI REEFS. LTD. The mine manager's report, dated December 15, states"'Good dirt, with a, little picked stone, continues to come to hand from the stopc over the No. 3 level, Golconda reef. All the faces in the mino were topped, and the men put intr, tho wmzo sinking with three shifts. It will take about ten feet of sinking to drop on to the quartz. This is due to our having been obliged to start in the hanging 7 n or< ' cr to keep the level open for trafflo from tho other faces." THE FRUIT-FARMING INDUSTRY. To those porsons anxious to obtain a healthy, peaceful, and highly remuiierative occupation, away from tho busv . hum of life peculiar to tho "petrol ago,"" there is no vocation combining these attributes to a greater degree than that of fruit-farming in tho Jlotneka district, Nelson. As Tasmania is to the' Commonwealth, of Australia, so is the Jllotueka'district, only in a. more marked degreo,' to New Zealand. There is more money in fruit-farming nny other: branch of tho farming industry. A few days ago 11,000 cases of Californiau apples wero sold at Auckland at 15s. por case. A low., estimate' for returns from Motueka lands is two cases to the tree, of which there are'.planted 130 to 150 Jo the acre.., Reader are referred _to two interesting advertisements inserted by P. B. Lomax and,6o., orchard specialists, of Motueka, on page lOjsf this" issue.
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Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2956, 20 December 1916, Page 8
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277MINING NEWS Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2956, 20 December 1916, Page 8
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