PROBABLY UNDERGROUND RESERVOIR TAPPED.
(Per Press Association.')
WHANGAREI, Mar, 26
The Northern Coal Company's new mine at Hikurangi was flooded last week. It was found that the ground was getting uneasy, and more water was coming in. It gradually increased until the workings were flooded, then overflowed to the main shaft,, tand the pump became submerged and was thrown out of action. The water continued to rise in the main shaft to 100 feet. Water cages are now being used to bail the water out till the men can get down to the pumps. :
A reporter at the mine at ten o'clock last night found the water had decreased 18ft. in seven hours.
The mining engineer states that probably a waterpocket in the limestone formation was struck as the water rose very slowly after reaching 60 feet. Anxiety was felt at first, as it was thought that « spring had been; tapped, but as the water only rose slowly from between 60 and 100 feet it is calculated that the men struck an underground reservoir, and it is considered unlikely that the flooding will be of a permanent nature. The timbers in the mine broke, but this was caused bj the weight of water, and not <a creep, as at first feared.
Fifty-five men are thrown out of eniolovment.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Issue 12878, 27 March 1913, Page 4
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