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the fire stick whenever there is a chance," so that now there is a good deal of cleared land, and very little difficulty in moving about, where before it was almost an impenetrable thicket. After my return to Nelson, I sent the Provincial Engineer a plan showing the cut lines, and a rough table of the heights above the sea of the stations on these lines ; from this table corrected by more careful calculations, I constructed the section shown on Diagram 8, this I trust would be useful in his examination.
As an opinion has been expressed by so competent an authority as Dr. Hector, that the Buller coal is superior to any yet found either in New Zealand or Australia, I hope and think that it will shortly compete in price as well as quality, with any coal in the Southern Hemisphere. And nothing could be more fortunate than to find, that the splendid coal discovered by Mr. Rochfort nearer Nelson, could be brought into the market of the world at a lower rate still.
I have, &c.,
JAMES BURNETT.
PRINTED BY R. LUCAS, BRIDGE STREET, NELSON.
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Nelson Provincial Gazette 1863, No 8
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Report on part of the Grey Coal Field north of the Buller River
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🌾 Primary Industries & ResourcesCoal fields, Buller River, Geological survey, Mining engineering, Railway gradients, Coal seams, West Coast
- James Hector (Doctor), Expert authority on coal quality
- John Rochfort (Mr.), Discovered coal near Nelson
- James Burnett, Author of the report