KAMO COLLIERIES
PUMPING OPERATIONS PROHIBITED FEAR OF RAILWAY SUBSIDENCE [Pin United Press Association.] WHANGAREI, June 24. Owing to the virtual prohibition of pumping operations imposed by the Railways Department, 30 aimers employed by Kamo Collieries Ltd. received notice of the termination of their engagements from the week-end. The management desires to pump water out of the working near the railway reserve,- but the Railways Department fears the pumping might dewater old passages running under the railway line, with the possibility of subsidences. The company is satisfied from old records, recent exploration, and the testimony of miners who worked the old Kamo mine that the old workings under the railway reserve subsided 60 years ago. and that the only excavation under the line is an old tunnel driven through the fallen ground*
A deputation met the Minister of Internal Affairs (Mr Parry) last night, the Minister promising to bring th» question under the notice of the Minister of Mines (the Hon. P. C. Webb),
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Evening Star, Issue 22684, 25 June 1937, Page 13
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