TAUPIRI COAL MINE.
MINERS REFUSE TO WORK. AUCKLAND, August 18. Owing to what are regarded as evidences of a- creep in the north section of the Taupiri Company's extended coal mine the workers employed at that mine did not go to work to-day. The signs of the creep are six oraoks, which have occurred in Hakawa street, the largest being about three inches wide. A crack is also showing on the railway line. The minora have deoided not to work pending an investigation. The local Government inspector (Mr B. Bennie) went down the mine to-day, and has sent a report to Wellington.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3414, 20 August 1919, Page 39
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102TAUPIRI COAL MINE. Otago Witness, Issue 3414, 20 August 1919, Page 39
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