Waihi News.

Waikato Argus, Volume XXIV, Issue 3757, 14 April 1908, Page 2

Waihi News.

i The carting contracts undertaken : by Clarkin Bros, today are reminis- ! cent of the early days of the Ohinemuri goldfield, when metalled roads, ! over which heavy mining machnery I had to be hauled, were an unknown 1 quantity. In those days, which date : back to the nineties, and even earlier, ; the Clark ins for years practically de- | livered all the heavier machinery to j mining claims, not only to places i comparatively easy of access such as I Karangakahake and Waihi, but away j back to claims where only bush | tracks, perilous to both driver and i horses, existed, occasionally the trips j resulting in the loss of one or more j valuable animals. The present con i tract which the Clarkins have underj taken calls to mind the resourceful- ! 11 ess of these veteran teamsters. The Waihi-Paeroa Gold Extraction Company, unable to arrange with the railway, owing to the tunnel being inadequate to accommodate the large tubular metal tanks for their extraction plant in Waihi, entrusted the delivery to the Clarkins. who met their first difficulty when they reached the railway bridge. The dimensions of the huge tanks precluded all possibility of passing under it, but the trouble was srieedily and successfully overcome by sinking the road some two or three feet, and the tanks are now being delivered at the company's works light up to contract time. The prompt delivery, in the early part of the week, of the new boiler from the Bowentown estuary to the Waihi Beach claims, is characteristic of the carting feats of the Clarkins. A solid Wfeight of ten tons, in spite of the of sandhills, into which the wheels'sank axle deep, and which had to be crossed before firmer sand was met with, was conveyed and delivered at the foot of the Beach claim in four hours.—Waihi News.