SUCTION DREDGES

Hokitika Guardian, 26 September 1924, Page 4

SUCTION DREDGES

DI’XF.DIX, September 21

“II there are not from ten to twenty suction drod"os workiti" in ( entral l)t:itt> within the next two years, and niakiii" i c.usider.ilde p-rviils, I will be very much surprised.” said Air ( . Todd at a meetiii" of the Ota"> Expansion kea"ie. “It is a hi" thin" for Ot:'."o.”

Air Todd, in sp.akin" i f the hydroideetrie si hemes, said that Otaixo was now in a K-'o.l way to I jin" reti:nkited from north I i s;utii. iu;i by l!:> hi" Ilawea-Wauaka s: heme lirst prnfose'l, hut by smaller schemes, which were i|iiite sulli ient in the mcintim:'. A suction d redye would be placed <.n tlia Shutovcr Diver vein, ai d would he worked with hydro-electric power within six months. Hi" syndiintos in Sydney. .Meibom ne and America were eratiii". and most of tbe drcdpiii" leii l bad already been taken up. The suction system turn'd land over at a <esl of Is 2d a cubic yard, and the dredp'S would all be worked hv hvdro-oloetri.-

In reparrl to the hi" Kawarau scheme Air Todd said he did not propose to express any opinion on it. The company had some clever eii"ineers I eliind it. and he thoupht they knew what they were doin". If they did not "et the "ohl it would still be in the Kmvara.o. Someone would pet it out so nrday. and it would be a hip; thin" for tbe whole of (Itapo,