KHYBER PASS COLLISION

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 80, 25 June 1927, Page 14

KHYBER PASS COLLISION

MOTOR-CYCLE AND CAR RIDER TAKEN TO HOSPITAL A collision between a Triumph mo-tor-cycle and a Hudson car occurred shortly after nine o’clock this morning at the junction of Khyber Pass and Park Roads. It is understood that the motor-cycle which was ridden by Mr. Norman B. Hunt, aged 25, of Pah Ptoad, Epsom, was travelling up Khyber Pass Road at a moderate pace, when the Hudson owned by the Northern Roller Milling Co., Ltd., and driven by an employee of the firm, emerged from Mountain Road and was struck on the right side by the cycle. In attempting to avoid a collision the driver swerved the car, which finally came to rest against a stone wall on the footpath in Park Road. Hunt was taken to the Auckland Hospital suffering from a deep cut on the head, and bruises. His condition is not serious. The driver of the car was not injured. A badly-twisted front axle and distorted mudguards and running-board constituted the Hudson’s damage, while the motor-cycle got off with only a buckled front wheel. GOLD-DREDGING REVIVAL IN OTAGO FAMOUS HARTLEY RILEY CLAIM The Hartley and Riley Gold Dredging Co., Ltd., which has just secured a total length of nine miles of the wonderfully rich Molyneux River—including the famous Hartley and Riley claim —is to have built the largest and most powerful gold electrical river dredge of its kind in the world. Returns of gold from Otago and from the Molyneux River in particular have been nothing short of fabulous, and in the light of modern engineering progress it is hard to realise that such magnificent returns were secured from the river bed with such comparatively crude implements at hand. The small dredges which were used at the time of the last dredging boom were unable to reach and work properly the rich jointy reef bottom of the river, where the greater supplies of gold always lie. During the last 30 years the Americans have improved and developed the bucket dredge, and a late model, now working at Rimu Flat, on the West Coast, is securing excellent returns. The new Leviathan Dredge, which the company is building, will be strong enough to work a % part of the river bed, and it is prett. certain that next winter, when the dredge commences operations, wonderful returns of gold will be secured.

In the South Island, and particularly in Otago, where the wonderful wealth of the Molynex River is known, a large number of shares have been sold. The capital of the new company is £75,000. divided into Is shares, payable 3d per share on application, 3d on allotment, 3d six months after, and the find 3d per share 12 months after allotment. The minimum number of shares for which applications will be received is 400 (£2O worth). Prospectus and forms of application may be obtained from any branch of the Bank of New South "Wales, Mr. S. Thorne George, Broker fgor the company, any member of the Auckland Stock Exchange, or from the Secretary, A. H. Kitto, 505 Southern Cross Buildings, Auckland. Send to-day for prospectus and map of the claim. 19.