TESTS OF GOAL DEPOSITS

Press, Volume LXXIII, Issue 21986, 9 January 1937, Page 4

TESTS OF GOAL DEPOSITS

CONSTRUCTION OP CAMP BEGUN The building of a camp for the men to be engaged on the boring of the Blackburn flats to determine the extent and quality of coal deposits located there was begun this week by a gang of five men in charge of a mining supervisor. These men are employed on full time rates of pay, and it is anticipated that it will take about three months to build the camp. The testing of this ground is being undertaken in accordance with a decision made by the Minister for Mines (the Hon. P. C. Webb) at the request of the Buller county engineer (Mr C. F. Schadick), and it is hoped that if the field proves extensive enough the Government may consider establishing a low temperature carbonisation plant there. CHIEF POSTMASTER TRANSFERRED | TO GO TO GISBORNE AT END OF MONTH Mr A. M. Robertson, who has been chief postmaster at Greymouth for just over two years, has received notice of his transfer to Gisborne. Sis will I leave about the end of this month. Mr W. P. Smith, chief postmaster at Westport, will replace Mr Robertson. Mr Robertson has earned a high reputation in Greymouth for his courtesy and consideration at all times, and also for the great amount of work which he has done as secretary of the health camp organisation in Greymouth. Before coming to Greymouth he was postmaster at Rotorua for three years, and before that was postmaster at, the Wellesley , street office, Auckland. He has been in the Post and Telegraph Department’s service for <35 years. - Mr Smith, before going to Westport, was in the Walpukurau Post- Office, and during the earthquake did valuable service in the town.