WELSH COLLIERIES
IMPORTANT PURCHASE BY GERMANS. LONDON, October 9. The Daily Mail ” states that Germans have gradually purchased the shares of the original owners of the Whitworth collieries at Neath (Glamorganshire), embracing an area of twelve square miles, estimated to contain 3) ri.ODO,OOO tons of the finest smokeless coal. The British directors have been summoned to resign in favour of German representatives. , A quarter of a million has, the " Mail ” says, been paid for the estate.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXVIII, Issue 6027, 11 October 1906, Page 7
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76WELSH COLLIERIES New Zealand Times, Volume XXVIII, Issue 6027, 11 October 1906, Page 7
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