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millions of tons are available. The bulk of this will consist of brown coals 

 in no wise superior to the brown coals of the rest of New Zealand. Of the 

 remainder the greater proportion will be sub-bituminous in quaUty. The 

 comparatively small areas containing bituminous and anthracitous coals 

 are elevated and geologically accessible, and because of this the quantities 

 of coal they contain are approximately known. 



Table. C. 



* Mean of five. f Mean of seven. % Mean of eleven. § Mean of sixteen. 



