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GOLD-DREDGING. When dredging was first introduced on the Coast the appliances for gold saving were very incomplete, subsequently many of the dredging companies bad a short life. Not only were the appliances defective but men were placed in charge of dredges who had no knowledge of gold-saving. All the qualifications deemed necessary to have charge of these machines were that the man in charge must lie either a mechanical engineer or had been employed in dredging harbours and rivers in order to get a greater depth of water. The gold-saving appliances were Jookea on as a minor question. The appliances for lifting the material in some cases were satisfactory, but it was merely lifted and sluiced over the- stem of the dredge on which the machinery was placed without recovering, but a very small percentage of the gold tlie material contained.
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Hokitika Guardian, 4 October 1928, Page 3
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