A Mother Greenstone Reef.
FOUNT) XKAI! AHAHI'KA. TJV "CHAR ME?" fPKft I'RRSft ASSOCIATION.! WELLTXGTOX. This Day. Private fldvicos from the. West Coast report an important- discovery of what i.s helievcd to be- a .&yjftk<V reef from which all greenstone found there is derived. It is high up a mountain in the Arahura district, and whether directly an original roof or not there is a vast outcrop <of greenstono innioiintincr to millioiis nf tons. A syndicate has boon to exploit it with pTfM'ns.tono in wich C|iiantititvs that its use wil] no lonper ho confinrd: to jowollory. an<l the idea is vt> put it to eommeirci.il nnrposes in the form of tahlo tons, inonuments. etc. Tt is sibo nnttrrstnod that tivero will he a. larse market in Oliinn, where ijri'pe.ii-stono in the form of jncle is regarded with peculiar veneration.
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Horowhenua Chronicle, 28 August 1911, Page 3
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138A Mother Greenstone Reef. Horowhenua Chronicle, 28 August 1911, Page 3
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