STATE COAL MINE
AN OPTION SECURED. OVER WAHTATO.PROPERTY. For some time past rumours have been current that the Government wejy in negotiation with.the object of securing a coal mine in the Waikato on " which to establish a Stile mine. We now understand on reliable authority that an option has been secured over an extended area in the Pukeinira <listrict, which has been proved t:i contain rich coal seams and which J will lie developed. It is to be iioped thiit the establishment of a State mine in Waikato wflf have the effect of considerably reducing the present exorbitant price of coal, the result of the industry being in private hands.
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Waikato Times, Volume 89, Issue 13851, 31 August 1918, Page 4
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110STATE COAL MINE Waikato Times, Volume 89, Issue 13851, 31 August 1918, Page 4
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