GOLD MINING
ok farm lands
ATTITUDE BY THE MINISTER
(By Telegraph—Per Press Association)
WELLINGTON, May 18.
. The position of gold prospectors on farm lands was made plain by the Minister of Mines and Agriculture, Hon. C. E. Macmillan, in a. letter read today at the meeting of the Dominion Executive of the banners’- Union.
Any grant made by a Warden, the Minister said, was subject to a statutary condition requiring the holder of the grant to recompense the owners of freehold land for any damages that might be caused in consequence of shaft sinking or boring.
Dredging claims were subject to the consent of the Mines Minister, and it had been the practice to investigate carefully the effect of dredging, and in some cases special conditions had oeen imposed with the object of' protecting the surface of the land applied for, or of restoring the same by depositing spoil on top of the tailings. It was his intention, the Minister stated, to visit ghldfieids nhd see for himself the results of ttredgihgf LatOr the advisability of alfiehdiltg the Ifiiv, or otherwise, would be carefully coil* sidered by the Government,
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Hokitika Guardian, 19 May 1932, Page 5
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189GOLD MINING Hokitika Guardian, 19 May 1932, Page 5
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