TROUBLE AT MINE
Difference With Department . (By Telegraph— Press Association.) WHANGAREI, This Day. Owing to a virtual prohibition of pumping operations imposed by tbe Railways Department 30 miners em-
ployed by Kamo Collieries Ltd. received notice of the termination of their cr.gagement from the week-end. The management desires to pump water out of a working near a failway reserve, but the Railway Department fears that the pumping will dewater old passages running under tbe railway line witb possibility of subsidences. The company is satisfied from old recprds, a recent exploration and the testimony of miners who worlced the old Kamo mine that the old . workings under the railway reserve subsided 50 years ago, and that the only excavation under the line is an old tunnel driven through fallen ground. A deputation met the Hon. ,W. E. Parry last night, the Minister promising to briug the question under the notice of the Hon. P. C. Webb. A
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 135, 24 June 1937, Page 6
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156TROUBLE AT MINE Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 135, 24 June 1937, Page 6
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