SAND FOR CONCRETE.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 9, Issue 590, 7 December 1920, Page 2

SAND FOR CONCRETE.

GRAVEL FOR ROADS.

DREDGING THE WAIKATO.

("Times" Ohinewai Correspondent.) This district is sending away daily 140 cans of cream, several tons of fibre weekly, large quantities of beef, mutton and pork, and thousands of tons of pumice yearly, and has yet another industry which has every appearance of ,proving a great benefit locally and a greater benefit to the surrounding district. For some years past considerable efforts have been expended to improve the Waikato River to rid it of the sandbeds and other impediments to improve navigation and drainage. ,

Recently the enterprising Firth Pumice Company secured certain rights from the Waikato River Board, and have put on the river a very fine outfit to dredge away these impediments to navigation, the result of which will be that the Waikato River Board will receive constant and muchneeded revenue, and the public will be enabled to procure the finest concrete and building sand and roadscreening gravel obtainable in any part of New Zealand. As this fertile and surrounding Country has been sadly neglected re loading in the past, the result of this fine work will be most beneficial.

Dredging to improve the river has been advocated by all the experienced men trading on the Waikato River for years past, but the aVerage man did not understand the conditions. The Firth Pumice Company have demonstrated that a few months' work in cutting of the thin points of the sand-bars which run from wide dimensions in the centre of the river to the river-bank (where there is always a deep channel) will allow boats of deep draught to traverse the Waikato River from the Waikato Heads to Cambridge and Hamilton, which has been the principal hindrance.

As this sand, when handled and screened by the Firth Pumice Company, is of considerable value, we can congratulate ourselves and wish the enterprising Firth Pumice Company every success. ,

STORE CHANGES HANDS,

The old-established store of A. Gall and Son has recently been purchased by Mr. A. E. Jones, an energetic and very capable business man, who is proving quite an acquisition to the place, and already has won the confidence and esteem that is necessary in business.