MINING

Hokitika Guardian, 14 July 1931, Page 6

MINING

IN J UNCTION WANTED

(By Telegraph—Per Press Association)

BLENHEIM, July 11. At Blenheim Warden’s Court, Elizabeth Stratford claimed damages for alleged trespass by Alahakipawa Goldfields, Ltd., on her lands, also an order that any gold won in her lands be delivered to her. and an injunction prohibiting the defendant company from conducting operations upon or under her land. Air A. E. L. Scantlebury, for the plaintiff, asked for an order authorising*ta survey to ascertain whether there, is any encroachment. All' F. F. Reid, for the defendant company, pleadefl that the application was vexatious. He said a Supreme

Court action was pending between the, parties on the matter and the whole subject would be cleared up then. M;r •Scantlebury said the lands referred to in the Supreme Court action were not the lands mentioned in the present action. He also pointed out that the proposed survey must be secured and would cause no expense to the defendant company, so that its resistance to the-order asked for seemed to reflect on its bona tides. His Worship made an order authorising Air F. J. Ledger, a 'Nelson surveyor, to make a survey.

SALE OF t,t ,vt

AUCKLAND, July 13.

Negotiations have been completed between the Alines Department and the Golden Dawn Gold Alines Ltd., for ihe sale, on favourable terms to the latter of the battery, plant and gear of Muir’s Reef (fold Alines, Limited, at Te Puke. Operations are under way at both Te Puke and the Golden DawiYs battery site at Owharoa, for the removal to and re-erection at the latter, of the additional plant and machinery which Air Noble, battery engineer, of riiamcs, recommended to bring the company’s present tenstamper battery up to date, it is anticipated that the improvements will be completed and the battery running in about four months, from date.

Everything is in readiness at the mine, directly the battery is ready, to supply ore from the several fact’s on Nos. 1 and 3 reefs, in which the mine manager estimates there are 8000 tons at present available, from which the run of 500 tons treated at the Viaihi Company’-s battery at Waikino was supplied. ■A condition of (he sale front the Mines Department is that, while operiting the battery, and subject to priority of its own. requirements, the imnpnny will treat ore for prospectors and others, on terms arranged, which, while giving facilities for treatment of outside ore ’which do not at present exist, and which have been the sub ect of many requests in the past, w ll provide a remunerative return to the eom-