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Te Aroha News, Volume XXVI, Issue 43069, 16 March 1907, Page 4

-Ai new invention in connection with, gold! mining, which has been taken up by ai syndi'oate of Auckland business men, and is being thoroughly tested in the different rivers of the colony, should! prove of value to, those who are interested ‘in alluvial mining. It isj a kind - of dredging bucket, tor-pedo-ahaped, and about 6ft in length', ..and bv means of ai boat and an ingenious block and tackle arrangement, one mam working/thie implement can slcobp uj> quite ai.... large amount of ; Vash?-frOm a river-or harbour bed. Mr John William*; who has been testing the machine in the. Marlborough rives*, is at present in ,Balclutha arritnjriiig fot* a trial in-the Molyneux, from hare expects to go to the Vfotmrs, where farther tests will be made, Mr Vf, Bigham', of Auckland,! ,f* the ■-' ' .