WAIRONGOMAI MINES. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)

Otago Witness, Issue 2895, 8 September 1909, Page 27

WAIRONGOMAI MINES. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)

AUCKLAND. September 6. Speaking at a social at•WaAhou the otfg* evening, in response to the toast of Ihe Affninf Industry," Mr Chai-ks Manuel and' that nex* to farming mining was the most important industry in the Dominion. They did not realise what tfcey owed to it.MininSr in spite of all that had be**?*"* to the contrary, was a payable, industry.. He had been follovring' up f?™lo^' 0™ years, and he would say deliberately that W«irongomai was the richest plac-3, be had ever seen in New Zealand. The-reefs wera laa-es and numerous, and all oarriec* &«ld 4' When the necessary capital and skill had} bo-n o-btained, and the necessary machinery, erected, the mineswould teoome pavinft at once. His knowledge had beert gained in the school of experience, and his opinion was that WaiTonjfomai wowkf come day outshine Waihi. The Bendigo r«af was far richer than the Martha was when he first caw it. What had mad« Waihi was the light kind of men and 1 money. The Silver King reef was dowblyi as rich as Übe Martha. The one wast sulphide, and the deeper it wemt the* better it became.