the history of Tom as a tunnel digger

History of Tom as a tunnel digger

 In the year 1923 Tom and his buddies were finishing a day of banging
a few more holes in the nearly finished tunnel. His shift was almost done
  when he heard a sound of people digging on the other side, everyone
gave a big hit and the wall collapsed. After a big cloud of dust swept
through the tunnel they met the people from the other side. 

After they walked to the end of the tunnel and got a ride with a local
horse carriage person named Lil. She asked where they wanted to go
and the answer to that was the pub. 

Five horses were used to pull a carriage and the road was rough and
jagged so they had to take a horse.  It was a bumpy ride but they got
there safe and sound. Everyone got drunk that night, they even put a
bit of bacon throw a mangle!

FACTS:

1. What did ill's family often live in A: tents 

2. Which section of  the road needed carriages A:  Arthur's pass to Otira 

3. How did cars get up the hill earl 1920s A: 2 

horses tow them

4.In what year did the Otira tunnel open A: 1923 

5. Accidents often happen with the horses on the steep bits A:
false Started 1907.       End 1923

Science With Pendulums

Science With Pendulums

This week at school we have been making pendulums one that you might know is a Newtons Cradle. like this...
I have got about half way with my pendulum seesaw this is where i have got up to on the right.
 And this is the real one in the middle.

history of wautia

This is a recount about wautia and the gold mine.

The history of Waiuta.

Where it is and why.

If you follow the Snowy Road on the West Coast you will arrive at an old ghost
town called Waiuta. A large gold vain was founded in 1905 by Jimmy Martin at
the location where Waiuta was to be founded. The gold vain was named the
Birthday Reef because it was discovered on King Edwards the VII’s birthday. 

How the miners got the gold out.

By the 1930’s Waiuta had a population of around 600 people. The miners
drilled and blasted the gold and quartz out of the rock. The timber around
Waiuta provide the people with housing and helped stabilised the mines from
collapsing. Mercury, cyanide and other toxic chemicals were used to separate
the gold from the quartz ore. In 2017 EnviroWaste cleared the chemicals from
the Prohibition Shaft site at a cost of $3.6 million.

How they get the gold out of the rocks.

There were two means of crashing the quartz to extract the gold.

1. The battery process. Gold was pounded out of the ore using a water
2. powered battery of iron stamps. This occurred at the Snowy Battery.
3. The ball mill. Iron balls in revolving steel drums crushing the quartz rock.
4. This occurred at the Prohibition Mill site.

Dates of what happened.

On King Edward the king VII birthday a reef of gold had been found. By the
1930s over 600 people had been staying at a gold mine called Waiuta.
Between 1939 and 1946 the number of men employed by the company fell
from 240 to 113 because of the First World War as there was no one to mine
and make money. On July 9th 1951 the Blackwater Shaft collapsed, and the
mine began to flood. Many people became jobless and were forced to leave
Waiuta and settle somewhere else. Many of the buildings eventually got
dismantled, and within a couple months, Waiuta became a ghost town, with
nothing to offer.