MINING

Hokitika Guardian, 17 August 1932, Page 2

MINING

THE KAWARAU

SECOND DAM TO BE ERECTED

JIUNEDIN, August 15.

Mr Herbert Oredginton, formerly of Otago, .but now of Melbourne, who represents the Australian shareholders in the Kawarau Company, says that they are very anxious to increase their present holding of, 25 per cent, of the scrip. The visitor, also made an interesting announcement in respect to the erection of a sqcond dam. Another dam is .now to be built,” said All Credginton, who is a director of the reorganised Kawarau Company. “Professor Horne),i assures us that it will hold up the. water for any desired period, from,two to three months, according to .the yeather, and it is up to us, peeing that the water can be lowered, to conceive some idea as to working the bed of the river. Our present proposition is to concentrate on the bed in sections. By that method experience will teach us something every year, and as the Kawarau will likely provide fifty years of mining, the accumulated experience should serve as a direct guide 'to the body of the gold. “Everybody who gives the matter a thought pnist be of the opinion that the gold-winning on the Kawarau since the closing-of the gates is much greater than disclosed. -A reasonable estimate of the total would be from 600 to IOOOoa, and what has .bedn won is from, the banks of the Kawarau, not from * the Shotover of Molypeux. Remember, too, that the ground worked since the unemployed were granted' permission is not virgin ground, but crevices that were mined by the miners of the seventies and eighties. The directors and the engineers are to meet next week on the river -banks and decide as to a suitable site for the new dam.”

‘'OKARITO RETURN

The Okarito Five Alile Beach return was TBoz 13dwt for 118 hours’ dredg-

and the late James Cowah,- of Rotomanu. Mr .Pitman officiated at the organ and tlje church was artistically decorated. The bride, who was given away by her brother, Mr Alex Graham, wore a handsome frock of ivory celanese satin 1 , and wreath and veil. She carried a bouquet of spring flowers and maidenhair fern. Miss Ruby Smithers, cousin of the bride, was bridesmaid, wearing an attractive ankle-length frock of pink satin;- 'Mr Bert Cowan, brother of the bridegroom, ’ was best man. After t)he ceremony a reception was held at the residence of the bride’s mother. L|ter Mr and Mrs Cowan left' on their wedding tour of Ntelson and Dunedin, the brljde wearing a navy blue costume with an ivory - crepe de chine blouse and a beautiful fur,