THE DREDGING INDUSTRY ON THE COAST.

Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 21 May 1901, Page 4

THE DREDGING INDUSTRY ON THE COAST.

A Novice’s Impression.

Asked by a representative of the Christchurch 1 Press ’ regarding his opinions of gold dredging on the West Coast, after having visited a number of the working dredges, Mr George King, of that city, who is on the directorate of several Coast dredging Companies, said that, unlike some visitors to the Coast, who, after a run over the country, came back fullblown dredging experts, he had no claim to he anything but a novice in the matter. Indeed, the result of his inspection of dredges and claims had been that ho was only in the “ A, B, 0 ” of the industry. Mr King was, however, a novice with keen powers of observation, and it did not escape him that some of the working dredges" showed evidences of faulty construction, which, of necessity, hampered their working capacity, and reduced their efficiency. Into details respecting individual dredges he had visited, Mr King preferred not to go, but he has returned firmly of the opinion that once the mistakes, which are more or less inseparable from the starting of what is on the Coast a new industry, have been surmounted, there are prosperous times before gold dredging on the Coast. The buried timber difficulty will be responsible for a lot of lost time, and ho came across an instance where it had taken a dredge a whole day to remove a log that prevented the continuance of operations.