MINING

Hokitika Guardian, 12 August 1931, Page 5

MINING

MOUNT DAVID SLUICING CO. GIIEYMOUTH, August, 10. The Mount David Sluicing Company, which for many months has had a * large gang of men eonstruciting some miles of water race to bring water on to their claim near Blackwater, will very shortly commence sluicing operations. The initial works are now nearly completed and it is understood most of the men employed o,n the construction of the water race will be paid off this week. The prospects of this company are exceedingly bright and success would provide a big fillip to the goldmining industry on the Coast.

Paying his first visit to New Zealand since* 1919, Mr C. N. Baeyertz, who is to be judge of elocution at the forthcoming' Wellington Competitions, arrived on Monday morning by the Makura from Sydney. Mr Baeyertz was • musical and elocutionary judge of the first competitions held in Wellington m 1911. “I remember that year a choir came from Dunedin, one from Auckland, and another from Feilding," he said. “The Feilding choir was declared the winner but the choral work of all three was admirable. Elocutionists and singers gathered in Wellington from almost every town of any size in New Zealand, while there were competitors from Victoria and Tasmania. These competitions have done great good for New Zealand and an incalculable good to the cause of New Zealand citizenship. He was glad to be back in a country where the vowels were not mutilated and where the beauty of the English tongue was appreciated. New /ealan “' ers, he said, had a much keener appreciation of literature and art than th average Australian. He was also ■ glad to be in a country with a sane Govern- , ment.