1921.] 
Departmental Report. 
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Appendix I.— Goal-analyses. 
(1.) 
(2.) 
(3.) 
Fixed carbon 
50-14 
42-6 
37-60 
Volatile hydrocarbons 
27-72 
38-3 
38-65 
Water 
15-01 
13-6 
14-85 
Ash 
7-13 
5-5 
8-90 
100-00 
100-0 
100-00 
Sulphur, per cent. 
. . 
0-6 
3-6 
(1.) Sample from Tangarakau River, forwarded by Government Geologist 
(Alex. McKay). 33rd Ann. Rep. Col. Lab., p. 6, 1900. See also McKay’s 
report of 1899 (mentioned in Appendix II), pp. 29-30. 
(2.) Sample from outcrop near 63 m. on Stratford-Oliura Road, taken 
by District Engineer, Public Works Department. Analysis made in 
Dominion Laboratory, August, 1919. 
(3.) Sample from outcrop of small seam on Section 2, Block VII, Pouatu 
Survey District. Analysis made in Dominion Laboratory, October, 1919. 
Appendix II.— Previous Geological Reports. 
In 1886, and again in 1887, Professor James Park visited northern 
Taranaki, but did not penetrate into Pouatu Survey District on either 
occasion. He wrote two reports dealing with his field-work in those years, 
entitled,— 
(1.) “ On the Geology of the Western Part of Wellington Provincial 
District, and Part of Taranaki.” Rep. Geol. Explor. during 
1886-87, No. 18, pp. 24-73, 1887. The Tangarakau River is 
mentioned on pp. 65, 72, and 73; the Ohura and Heao Rivers on 
pp. 72 and 73. Park quotes reports to the effect that an 8 ft. 
seam outcrops in the Tangarakau, a 4-5 ft. seam at the head of 
the Heao (probably that seen by Dr. Henderson in 1917), and a 
3 ft. seam near the mouth of the Ohura. 
(2.) “ On the Upper Wanganui and King-country.” Same volume as 
above, pp. 167-82. The Tangarakau River is mentioned on 
pp. 172, 181 ; the Heao and Ohura Rivers on p. 173. 
In April, 1889, Mr. Alexander McKay inspected the proposed railway 
route from Stratford to the Tangarakau River. He wrote a report entitled 
“ Report on the District between Stratford and the Tangarakau River.” 
Pari. Paper C.-9, pp. 28-30, 1899 (bound in Mines Report for that year). 
McKay succeeded in reaching the Tangarakau River at a point twelve 
miles, he says, from the nearest coal-outcrop, and followed its right bank 
for some distance, but did not find any coal-outcrops. He obtained a sample 
of coal from some unknown source, and the analysis of this is quoted above. 
In or about 1909 Mr. E. Phillips Turner (then of the Lands and Survey 
Department) made a careful search for an outcrop of coal said to exist near 
the mouth of the Ohura River, but found loose coal only in the locality. 
He then went some miles up the Ohura in search of another reputed outcrop, 
but failed to find it. His manuscript report is now attached to a Mines 
Department file. 
In 1917 Dr. J. Henderson traversed the Tangarakau Gorge. His 
observations are contained in a report entitled “ The Taranaki Coalfield,” 
and published in the N.Z. Journal of Science and Technology, vob 2, No. 6, 
pp. 393-99, 1919 (see especially p. 398). 
