IMPORTANT DISCOVERY OF COAL.
WESTPORT, May 14. An imporant disoovery of coal on the Westport-Stockton Coal Mining Companys property at-Ngakawau is reported. The find practically proves the extension of a lower seam similar to Ooalbrookdale underlying about 1,000 acres of the property, and an upper seam of hard, bright coal of excellent quality and about six feet in thickness, underlying an area of about 500 acres. The lowerseam Is from 16 feet to 30 feet thick, and is stated to be equal to the very best quality of coal produced from the Buller coal fields. In addition to the above on the western boundary 300 acres contains a visible extension ,of the Uranity Creek seam with about three and a-half million tons of coal, bringing the aggregate up to thirty-six and a-half million tons or equal to an output of a quar* ter of a million tons per year for a century.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXVIX, Issue 8140, 15 May 1906, Page 5
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152IMPORTANT DISCOVERY OF COAL. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXVIX, Issue 8140, 15 May 1906, Page 5
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