FLOODING OF MINE
itikurangi Hold-up PUMPS CEASE WORK By Telegraph—Press Association. Auckland, August 27. No agreement was reached at a conference at Auckland between the directors of Wilson’s (N.Z.) Portland Cement Company, Ltd., and three representatives of the miners on strike at the colliery at Hikurangi. PLANT REMOVED Dewatering Will’ Prove Costly By Telegraph—Press Association Whangarei, August 27. In pursuance of a declaration that all plant will be removed unless the men, resumed immediately, Wilson’s Portland Cement Company has removed the last pump from the mine at Hikurangi, and the engine has stopped working for the first time in many years. The workings are flooding very rapidly, and even if settlement of the dispute bo reached the work of dewatering the mine and replacing gear ■will prove costly, ana much delay will ensue before the extraction of coal can be recommenced*
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Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 285, 28 August 1931, Page 10
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