A GOAL LEASE.
(Per Press Association.)
WESTPORT, March 15:
At a sitting of the Warden's Couri to-day the application of the Westport Coal Company for a lease of whaf is generally known as "Cook's" coa] lease, which adjoins the Company's Denniston property, was considered, an objection being received from Mi W T ilson on behalf of Mr Westenra, oi Akaroa, a member of a syndicate formerly interested in the lease. The objection was made on the ground that the lease would give the Westport Coal Company a monopoly of the first-class bituminous coal in the district. The Warden decided to recommend the Minister to _ grant the application, disbelieving it meant creating a monopoly, and stating there was no guarantee that if the application was refused that the money could otherwise be raised to develop the lease. Mr Dixon, Superintendent for the Westport Coal Company, said his Company could ' be producing coal from the lease in three weeks, as their present tram lines were now right.on the boundary of the lease.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume 9167, Issue 9167, 16 March 1910, Page 2
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170A GOAL LEASE. Manawatu Standard, Volume 9167, Issue 9167, 16 March 1910, Page 2
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