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Hokitika Guardian, 15 April 1925, Page 2

COAL-MIXING UNDER SYDNEY II ARBOR. SYDNEY. April 2. The Sydney Ilarhom; has, of course, its delights for the ordinary eye. but few people, even in Sydney, are aware of the enchantment and the wealth beneath it, only a short distance Irom the lily. For those who are permitted to undertake it there is, beneath the liarhour, a fascinating walk. It is about a mile long, about half a mile below the ferry boats that Carry their countless thousands of people to and from Svdnev each day, and about the same distance below tlie zone of sharks that infest Svdnov’s waters. In the heart of a million inhabitants, and with its outlel inetlie congested industrial suburb of Balmain, it, is the essential part of the Sydney Collieries’ unique coal mine, which Press representatives saw at work a few days ago. Taking a lilt and dropping hall a mile through inky blackness below the waters of the liarhour, they saw the coal mine at work. From beneath the harbour, the company is now winning about 500 tons of coal a day. but it is considered that in a few years the output will reach 2000 tons daily. The mine is nearly .'lO years old. it is claimed to be the deepest coal mine in the world, and has a shaft controlled by a winding engine said to he the largest of its kind in Australia. The working area lies under the Balmain Peninsula and extends under the harbour in various directions. Here 114 miners, apart from labourers, are daily at work. It is reckoned that there are 12.000,000 tons of coal within a working from the shaft. The company has permission to work 10.000 acres of Crown leases underlying the tidal waters of the harbour. The coal is considered to he of first-class steaming quality.

Schroder and Co’s Great Stock-taking. Sale is now finished. In thanking you very much for the liberal patronage, wo now advise you, that we have opened our first shipment of new autumn millinery, velveteens in plain colors, embossed and printed effects.— Advt. Infantile paralysis must be fought. Saturate cotton wool in mixture of NAZOL and Olive Oil and smear inside children’s nostrils.—Advt.