PROMISING COAL SEAM.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 230, 28 September 1935, Page 4

PROMISING COAL SEAM.

NEAR TANGOWAHINE. COMPANY TO WORK IT. (By Telegraph.—Special to " Star.") DARGAVILLE, this day. A private company known as Onetea Collieries, Ltd., has been incorporated to acquire the lease and workings of the abandoned Onetea coal mines near Tangowahine. Three practical miners from Hikurangi, Messrs. W. Tunstall, manager, J. Gray and J. A. Pollock, who have been prospecting, have struck a promising seam 50 feet down, rising seven feet o£ the surface. It is 23 feet in thickness and lias been traced "for a considerable distance. The miners estimate there are at least 00,000 tons, which bears out reports made 30 years ago when Mr. J. Gilberd, divining for the late Mr. J. J. Craig, found seams which he estimated to contain 40,000 tons of coal. Mr. Tunstall is also o£ opinion that there Is good coal to be found upon the property of Mr. T. C. Hawkins, which is just across the road from the Tangowahine railway station. I Miners are quite confident that Onetea coa lis equal in quality to anything found J® Waikato fields, and that a valuable industry can be built up.