GOAL MINE CLOSED DOWN.

Bush Advocate, Volume XXI, Issue 94, 19 October 1908, Page 2

GOAL MINE CLOSED DOWN.

[press association.] DUNEDIN, Saturday."

On Thursday morning an attempt was made to resume operations in the Allandale coal mine, which had recently to bo closed down. The management, acting on the advice of the Inspector of Mines, Mr Green, and of Mr Hayes, mining engineer of Wellington, reversed the ventilating fans, and on Thursday, after allowing time for the gases to disperse, the manager a-nd three men entered the mine with hoses to check the fire. On the water being placed on the burning face, however, the men were driven back by the steam and smoke, and it was decided to permanently close the workings. The majority of the men are under notice of dismissal, the management only retaining about half a dozen to work a 7ft seam in another part of the mine, remote from the fire.