NEW COALMINE.
OPENED IN THE WAIKATO. SUPPLIES FOR DAIRY' FACTORIES. (By Telegraph.—Own Correspondent.) HAMILTON, Wednesday. Away back in the hills in a triangle between Huntly and XgaruEHwahia a large settlement has sprung into being within the last 12 months, with whirling dynamos, smoking chimneys and a large number of concrete and wooden buildings and a railway line. This is Glenafton, the new village where the New Zealand Co-operative Dairy Company has opened its coal mine. To-day the first coal in bulk was removed from the mine when forty miners with the necessary complement of truckers and a contingent of labourers started to work. The output to-day is estimated to exceed 200 tons, which it is expected will be increased to 750 tons before long. The mine consists of 1200 acres of freehold while the adjoining property of -000 acres has been secured under a mining Ca -\~ strai-iit drive into the face of the hill taps the field, which is estimated to yield up to 15,000,000 tons of coal. The plant is the biggest individual one in the North Island, being operated by electricjtv. The whole of the company's factories will be supplied with Glenafton coal in the coming season. A tine type of miner's cottage being erected by the company for housing the men. i
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Auckland Star, Volume LIV, Issue 146, 21 June 1923, Page 5
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