EARLY PROSPECTING
REPORTS FROM KAWARAU
PLENTY OF COLOUR,
(By Telegraph.) (Special to tho "Evening Post/) DUNEDIN, This Day v Tho weather is perfect at Kawarau, and there was considerable activity in the Kawarau Gorge, above Cromwell, yesterday morning, most of tho claim* holders making their first try out, and several reporting encouraging results. Tho river there has never been lower, a fall of eleven feet being reported.at 0110 place. Excellent prospects are being made, and fourteen to fifteen coloursin each wash aro being obtained. Cradling in this vicinity will proceed in earnest to-morrow. The Molynenx River is also falling. For ten days only will.the gates be closed this time. The board of control has decided that if the lake at any time reaches six feet on tho Queenstown gauge, tho gates will be opened. Since the closing the lako level has risen half an inch every day. Till the dam is re-opened the claims will be worked from dawn to dusk, for the 'miners will bo wanting to know n$ much as they can of1 the' prospects> for next season's mining, which will commence in May and end in August. This is only a trial period, but the operation should be profitable.
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Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 54, 1 September 1926, Page 8
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202EARLY PROSPECTING Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 54, 1 September 1926, Page 8
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