TELEGRAPHIC.

Bush Advocate, Volume XXI, Issue 63, 12 September 1908, Page 8

TELEGRAPHIC.

[I'EESS ASSOCIATION.] DUNEDIN, to-day. The Green Island lignite industry is likely to receive a great impetus by a scheme formulated by tho local collieries to erect a powerful electric plant to supply the mining companies and the Dunedin factories. It 'is proposed to use the slack hitherto buried as waste to generate- the, power. The scheme, which is practically assured, will improve tho condition of the mines.