WEST COAST MINES.
A NEW SEAM. (By Telegraph.—Special to Standard.) WELLINGTON, July 13. The Minister of Mines (Hon. P. C. Webb) has Cabinet.’s authority to proceed with important development work on a large proved coal area adjacent to the James and State Alines, Runanga, on which a new seam, 20 feet thick, of first-class coal can be worked. Reading will be necessary, as well as mining and development, and it is expected that this will provide work for a number of men lor about two years. It will enable tiie new mine to begin production 'when the existing James Aline reaches the end of its coal resources.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVI, Issue 200, 14 July 1936, Page 2
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107WEST COAST MINES. Manawatu Standard, Volume LVI, Issue 200, 14 July 1936, Page 2
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