COAL MINING INDUSTRY.
WESTPORT, April 2. ! The Westport-Stockton Coal Company has nearly completed the chain of bores j required to link up the lower seam with ! the outcrop., and thue definitely prove the ' area which is coal-baring. The last borei but one, which is in the nioet important position, shows the seam to be Bft thick, ' and of standard quality. One of the bores which has just been completed show e a seam of coal 18ft thick. Both seams are of splendid quality.' Mr Ashley Hunter, of Auckland, is now engaged preI paring a tram for the new road to connect with the present transit system. The ' newly-proved eastern area has very great ! possibilities.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3030, 10 April 1912, Page 22
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114COAL MINING INDUSTRY. Otago Witness, Issue 3030, 10 April 1912, Page 22
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