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Hokitika Guardian, 13 July 1932, Page 6

LATE LOCALS

Last week the ' quantity of freight hauled through the Otira Tunnel was 9797 tons, or slightly more than in the month of June 1931, when , the quantity was 9639 tons, -whereas- in the same month of 1930 the total was much larger, namely 13,438 tons.

A iSydriey cable says: Journalistic circles in Sydney warmlly congratulate All- Hugo Freeth, a member of the staff of th© Sydney Morning Herald on the news of his appointment as Editor of the Christchurch “Press.” Air Freeth, who is a son of the- ln.be Mr P. C. Freeth, is a native of Afew Zealand, and received his early journalistic training there. He lias been associated with the Sydney Atorhlng Herald since 1922.

There is great and growing mining activity, "comments the Christchurch “Times,” all -along the west coast of this island and between the main range and the sea. Preparations for dredging are going forward as far south as Gillespies Beach, the dredge at Okarlo is working steadily and at intervals along the. beach almost up to (Beymouth there are “black-sanders” at work. Every stream known to have been gold-hear-ing has its parties. The big dredge on Rimu Flat works continuously. There are prospectors and subsidised parties in the valleys behind it, and men are working over old ground about Kumara and Stafforcltown. There are twenty men on th© old Maori Gully diggings. Further north new sluicing claims _are being worked, or are to be worked, in the Reefton district. The Big River mine has been reopened and while Blackwater employs many men a new i" -- i-> *-’•<• -.-Miie neurlibourhood i:: b'"’ng • developed. A new find is reported eight miles north-west of Reefton. Ne« dredging ventures are in hand in the country about Alurchvon..