LATE LOCALS.

Hokitika Guardian, 22 November 1929, Page 5

LATE LOCALS.

A miner named James Hughes, middle-aged and a widower, was severely injured whilst working in the James Mine at Rapahoe. at 11.30 a.m. yesterday. About a ton of rock from the false roof fell, burying him, and had it not been for a coal tub which aas nearby, Hughes would certainly have been killed outright. Two miners .who \Vere working where the accident occurred a few minutes previous to the fall, were fortunately away from the spot, otherwise they would have been caught by the fall. It was about two hours before the injured man could be got out, and he was at once removed to the Grey River Hospital, where his condition last evening;was reported to he easier.

Messrs H. P. Gibbs, a ,well-known British hydro-electrical engineer, A. Leigh Hunt and H. VickSrman >' returned to Dunedin on Monday : last from Lake Mauapouri and Doubtful Sound, whero they have spent the past ten days investigating the possibilities of inaugurating a large hydro-electric scheme on the west coast .of Otago. Mr Gibbs represents a nitrogen-producing organisation which at present holds an option from the New Zealand Sounds Hydroelectric Commissions, Ltd., Over the scheme. The proposal involves the construction of six miles of tunnelling from the lake to Deep Cove for the purposes of obtaining power sufficient to generate 200,C00 h.p. It is estimated that the scheme would cost over £8,000,000, nearly half of which would be spent in New Zealand on construction work, and it would also involve the creation of a new seaport and township at Deep Cove.