A New Coal Mine.

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVII, Issue 43370, 10 September 1908, Page 2

A New Coal Mine.

VERY ENCOURAGING PRO3PE DTS

Wa have before us a sample of coal recently taken from one of Auckland’s latest coalfields, viz., at Ngaruawhaia. The coal is of excellent quality, being very clean aud free from dirt or stone bands. From reports to hand there is no doubt the mine will prove to be one of the best mines in the. Dominion. A lengthy report on the coal values of the property —known as the Ngaruawhaia Coal Co , Ltd., —by Mr John Hayes, M.E., late Inspecting Engineer, to the New Zealand Government Mines Department, states that the outcrop of coal has been bared in five places, the average thickness being eleven feet. The estimated quantity of coal is calculated at 10,000 tons per acre, which on the whole of the proved coal-bearing area, which can bo conveniently commanded from one working centre up to 20,000,000 tons, equal to 100 years’ outqut at the rate of 200,000 tons per annum.