MINING CONFERENCE

New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12363, 5 February 1926, Page 11

MINING CONFERENCE

SEVERAL PAPERS READ REMITS DISCUSSED. Per Pres* Association * DUNEDIN, February 4. Tlie Dominion mining conference was continued to-day, when the following paper* were brought forward and discussed: “Pie>ent Position of the Shale Oil Industry .” by Professor Park; “Some Essentials for Successful Oil Development.” by F. CL Clapp (New York); ‘‘History of tho Search for Oil in E«:>pt,” by T. Fcrrar; ‘‘New Zealand Coal Measures” (three papers), bv Dr. Henderson. M. Ongley. Langford’and Mosley; "Protection of Underground "Roadways,” bv E. K. Wight: “Electrification of Denniston Coal Mine,” by G. C. Brown ; “Spontaneous Combustion and Fires in Coal Minos. Cause and Prevention.” bv W. and F. Carson; “New Zealand LecisIhtimi Dealing with Petroleum and Nr* ftiral Gas Production,” bv A. 11. Kimbell.

The following remit*: were also discussed and adopted : '“That the recent regulations in regard to alluvial minemanagers’ 'eertifientes are unfair to holder.* of first-das? metal mine managers* certificates and arc not in the Vpst interests of alluvial mining” ; „“That in giving aids for prospecting the aim should be to concentrate on the larger work carried out under expert guidance ”