Successful Fight To Save Min e
(New Zealand Pres* Association) 1 AUCKLAND, March 3. , Sixty men and massive bull- c dozers and earth sliovels working t at top speed yesterday saved j 2,000.000 tons of coal from being , flooded when part of a stopbank j beside Lake Kimlhia, near Hunt- s ly moved on its clay foundation. t The stopbank holds the water out of a 60-acre open-cast mine which has been reclaimed from the lake to supply coal to the Mercer steam power station. The project engineer (Mr G. L. Nanson) said today that only a few thousand gallons of water got info the mine before the flow was stopped. „ “We hope it won’t hold us up , any more than two weeks,” he . said. The mine has not begun sup- ' plying coal yet AU available ? equipment was rushed to the “ bank as water began to run in . and around the slip. ; Mr Nanson said they had had ‘ trouble before, but this was the worst so far. “We threw in everything we ( had to flu up,” he said. Machines are Working on 2 permanent repairs to the stop- 1 bank, between three and four ’ I chains of which moved. 1
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Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 28835, 4 March 1959, Page 15
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