THE HIKURANGI MINE

Feilding Star, Volume 7, Issue 2134, 13 February 1929, Page 4

THE HIKURANGI MINE

ORIGIN OF THE FOODI NO

The flooding of the Hikurangi mine now appeal's much for serious that was at first supposed. There i s reason to believe the flood water can. be traced to the surface ill the Hikurangi swamp at a point in the bed of a creek about 1-J- miles north'of the mine where the creek lias beeju drained into an underground channel. In winter the intervening swamp area is flooded to a depth of 4ft to oft. Some distance south of the creek further subsidence? have been observed.

Some- 200 men are idle, and the prospect of early resumption, is not bright.