A decision to extend Westland’s Garvey Creek open-cast coalmine created a conflict between the needs of industry and concern for the environment. A photographer and a reporter visited the mine. The story is on page 21. This picture of a miner working with a pneumatic jack-hammer demonstrates the solitude of the mine which sits high amid the bush-clad foothills of the Southern Alps.
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Press, 8 September 1976, Page 1
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63A decision to extend Westland’s Garvey Creek open-cast coalmine created a conflict between the needs of industry and concern for the environment. A photographer and a reporter visited the mine. The story is on page 21. This picture of a miner working with a pneumatic jack-hammer demonstrates the solitude of the mine which sits high amid the bush-clad foothills of the Southern Alps. Press, 8 September 1976, Page 1
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