AN UNSAFE COLLIERY.
TWO HUNDRED MINERS WITHDRAWN.
[press association-.] _ (Received September 12. 9.35 a.m.) SYDNEY, September 12
The Mines Department has ordered the Stockton Colliery Co. to withdraw their men from the workings under the sea. Tests piove that tbew is only eighty feet of sandstone between the workings •and ocean bed and the -act demands'"l2o feet. Two hundred men are affected and
the outpui*~of the colliery will be reduced by half. r _ *
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Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLVIII, Issue 8926, 12 September 1905, Page 8
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73AN UNSAFE COLLIERY. Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLVIII, Issue 8926, 12 September 1905, Page 8
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