TE KUITI COALFIELD.
TE KUITI, .Tune 9. Publicatic-:2 of the news thitt it 53713‘ dicate is considering the que's“on of developing the Coalfield ‘a. few miles. from Hengatiki had an unexpected result. On Tuesday, the King ’s birthday, 11 large number of men were observed winning coal and bagging it in readiness for -transport-a.tiOll to their homes. One man had collected fifty to seventy bags, which he was carting to Otorohunga. Another came a distance of 20 miles. with two five-horse «teams. He and his employee had spent a day on the road, a day on -the field, and intended to take a further day on the re;turn journey. Quite a tnum’be»r gof waggons, drays, and Charts were in evidence. That the coal exists in large quantities is apparent to anyone. The out~ cropean plainly be seen, as a river runs over and through it.
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Taihape Daily Times, 10 June 1919, Page 5
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145TE KUITI COALFIELD. Taihape Daily Times, 10 June 1919, Page 5
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