THE KAWA KAWA COAL MINE.
' Sir,—Your daijf publication of extracts | frctm the New zlaiANd Hebaxjj of.-- 50 years ago are infesting to old colonists. On September 25|oi?e appeared concerning ; the opening of t|'| above mine, with the prediction that ft was " expected to bo . a great source M prosperity to the district as well as p'ofit to tile enterprising lessee." Alas! '»ho best laid schemes, etc., gang aft agley.| * Mr. J' C. Firth, who was a director |>f the company, told me on this closing of the mine that only one dividend was Jja-id _to the shareholders during the wlple time of its existence. The working expenses and miners' wages had swallowed/the rest. Yet Pope tell as: "Hope spring eternal in the human breast; man fever is, but always to be i blest." f W.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 16658, 1 October 1917, Page 2
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135THE KAWA KAWA COAL MINE. New Zealand Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 16658, 1 October 1917, Page 2
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