MINERS DISMISSED
RAILWAYS DEPARTMENT THE CAUSE By Telegraph—Press Association WHANGAREI, June 24. Owing to the virtual prohibition of pumping operations imposed by the Railways Department, 30 miners employed by Kamo Collieries Limited, received notice of the termination of their engagement from the week-end. The management desires to pump water out of the working near the railway reserve, but the Railway Department fears that pumptag will dewater the old passages running under the railway line, with the possibility of subsidences. The company is satisfied, from old records, recent exploration and the testimony of miners who worked in the old Kamo mine, that the old working under the railway reserve subsided 50 years ago, and that the only excavation under the line of the old tunnel is driven through the fallen ground. A deputation met the Hon. W. E. Parry last night, the Minister promising to bring the question under the notice of the Hon. P. C. Webb.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXLIII, Issue 20763, 25 June 1937, Page 7
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156MINERS DISMISSED Timaru Herald, Volume CXLIII, Issue 20763, 25 June 1937, Page 7
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