SEARCH FOR COAL
North Auckland Areas Dominion Special Service. AUCKLAND, October 1. The prospects of opening a coalfield in the Waimio district have been investigated by officers of the Scientific and Industrial Research Department, who recently mane surveys in the vicinity of Kawakawa, once 'the richest, coal-producing area in Northland. The Minister of Mines, Mr. Webb, states that boring will be necessary >n the virgin ground at Waimio, and that a final report is delayed till geological samples have been determined. Surveys revealed only a remote possibility of seams west of Kawakawa. and investigations to the north bad not. extended sufficiently to enable a pronouncement,
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Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 6, 2 October 1943, Page 6
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105SEARCH FOR COAL Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 6, 2 October 1943, Page 6
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