Bulolo Dredges
p. 11 · Read in the full issue
New Deep-Digger Ready In November
WHEN he returned to Sydney this month, after acting as host to the Governor-General and Lady Gowrie on the Morobe goldfield, New Guinea, Mr.
L. Y. Waterhouse (director of Bulolo Gold Dredging Ltd.) reported that the installation of new dredges at Bulolo is proceeding according to programme.
Four dredges, shallow diggers, are operating steadily: and new and bigger dredges, designed to reach the recently discovered deep levels, are now being erected.
Mr. Waterhouse said that No. 5, a big dredge of 2,000 tons weight, would prob ably be ready to commence operations by the middle of November. This plant was going to dig to a depth of 85 feet below water level. No. 6, a smaller dredge, was being installed nearer to Wau, where the Company had a small limited area to dig out. Another dredge. No. 7, was being assembled in Sydney. This would be of similar capacity to No. 5,