COALMINING LICENCE.
CRITICISM OF REFUSAL. AREA OF STATE FOREST. [from our own correspondent.] THAMES. Tuesday. A statement that the Mines Department had refused to grant a coalmining licence in a portion of land which was now a State forest was made by Mr. H. Lowe at ;i meeting of the council of the Thames School- of Mines, Mr. Lowe said three-quarters of the Coromandel peninsula was provisional State forest. It looked as if the Forestry Department was going to control mining. The director, Mr. Hugh Crawford, saitf there was a possibility of a fire starting in a coalmine which would destroy any forest.
Mr. Lowe said there was more danger from gumdiggers lighting fire«. Mr. J. Smith thought ail local bodies should approach the member i:'or the district on the matter. Ho instanced trouble he himself had had over an auriferous claim and a' past-oral lease at Te Aroha. He claimed that if the State forest spread any further, there would be* no place where men could prospect.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20889, 3 June 1931, Page 11
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