BULLER GORGE MINES
INSPECTED BY THE MINISTER. By Telegraph—Press Association. Westport, May 12. The Minister of Mines, on his way to Reofton from Westport; made uu inspection of one of tho mines in the buller Gorge that would be served by the completion of the Westport-Roefton railway. The coal from these mines was used for dredges, but since the dredges have disappeared from the' river only small quantities are taken out for tho. uso of people in the vicinity of tho mines. Tho Minister went along the various drives through solid coal varying from 15 to 80 feet thick, and later was given considerable data concerning other outcrops and workings,' indicating apparently the largest coalfield in the Dominion. The members of the Westport- Railway League impressed it upon the Minister That there would not have been the shortage of coal so much complained about if the sixteenmilo gap in the Buller Gorge railway had been completed, and urged that tho national mistake made should bo rectified by the speedy completion of the line.
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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 195, 13 May 1919, Page 4
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173BULLER GORGE MINES Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 195, 13 May 1919, Page 4
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