BRUNNER COAL FIELDS

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10560, 16 February 1912, Page 6

BRUNNER COAL FIELDS

NEW COMPANY FORMED. WORK TO COMMENCE SHORTLY. (By Telegraph—Tress Association.) CHRISTCHUIIGH, Last Night. Mr A. P. Harper, of this city, has just received cable advice from London, that a company is being registered there, under the title of the Brunner Collieries, Ltd., for the purpose of taking over and working the two- coal mines at present existing oil the Brunner field—the Tyneside Proprietary and the North Brunner Coal Company. The formation of the Brunner' Collieries is the result of negotiations begun by Mr Harper about twelve months ago. He then recognised that the consolidation of the two mines on the Brunner field was desirable, the North Brunner Company being in the position of requiring'more c:\nital. and reconstruction hein<r inevitable. Having obtained an option over the Tyneside Proprietary s mine Mr Marner went to England, to lav his proposition before the Board of Directors of the North Brunner Company. The. Board agreed to his proposal, with certain irTodifieatioiis, which Mr Harper was able to make upon his return to the Dominion, a week or two ago. The formation of the Brunner Collieries, Ltd., will mean that the two mines will now be worked under one control. Tho North Brunner Company s mine was shut down in September last, but it is anticipated that operations will he resumed at the mine shortlv.