A NEW-COAL-MINE.
BETWEEN NGARU4W.AHJA..AND ■RAaT.A-v .-. :,'-:': _•-_- ---(By Telegraph-—Own Correspondent.) - HAMILTON, this "day. "'" The first truck" of coal from 'the mine at Te Akatea was forwarded "to Waihi yesterday. . This, was carted down by horse wagons. The promoters-have had a survey taken of the route, and -intend to make a light railway, to Connect -wittti the railway at Ngaruawahia," the "estimafe. Ed cost of; the line being ,a0qut„"f25,0()9." This includes a ferrp-concrgte;: bridge: across the Waipa River. :*— —- Boring- operations - /eatrieij/ on for some" time past about- Horotuijbut- so far it is -hot known whether coal has been found. The flow of caused the abandonment of a bore-hole on Mr. George Hall's property.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXXIX, Issue 103, 30 April 1908, Page 5
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110A NEW-COAL-MINE. Auckland Star, Volume XXXIX, Issue 103, 30 April 1908, Page 5
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