Mokau Coal.
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"'""' [Wellington Paper.] i -H We are informed that g meeting is m process^of'bemg .convened for an early day ,by 'several - of. the business men ' of tie city.^ior" the purpose of consider- 1 ...ing a proposal which has emanated from ■■ a settler m the Mokau distriot, fqra transfer ot his" leases of the coal field* there. Theße coal fields are stated, | on: the authority lot ,;Dr Hector, to be of censiderablef extent, capable of bepsr easily worked, on the river bankSj and it is therefore also presumed of being worked economically. The country & said to be^'heavily timbered with the finest, totara, puriri, red and whitepin'es, ratk; Dlack birch, dec. tiim«sfcon^ is also stated to be -obtainable m inex-V. hßustible quantities, and the cement ; made from-the Mokau marl and limestone is alleged to have been-proyed" superior to the imported article. , !
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Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 173, 27 June 1883, Page 3
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143Mokau Coal. Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 173, 27 June 1883, Page 3
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