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Geology of the Provinces of Canterbury and Westland, New Zealand : a report comprising the results of official explorations

Malvern Hills Coalfields, 1863

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Malvern Hills Coalfields, 1863.

Since my last surveys in the Malvern Hills and the adjacent district, considerable discussions had taken place, as to the value of the different fields, and as to the quantity and quality of coal in each, therefore, by direction of his Honor the Superintendent, Samuel Bealey, Esq., I proceeded at the end of August, 1863, to that district, and examined once more the detached basin behind the Fourteen Mile Bush range, near the sources of Macfarlane's stream, visiting on my return the works of the Kowai Coal Mining Company. However, the latter having been abandoned for some time, I was not able to obtain a great deal of additional information on them. The results of these new examinations, together with a former report* on the same district, were published in a New Zealand Government Gazette, Province of Canterbury, on September 23rd, 1863.

* Reports of the Provincial Geologist on the Coal Measures and lignitiferous beds of the River Kowai.