30 Sep 2021

Ohai says goodbye to more than 100 years of coal mining

From Checkpoint, 5:55 pm on 30 September 2021

Ohai is today closing the book on its more than century long association with coal.

The small western Southland settlement sprang up around large coal deposits discovered in the 1910s, but its time is up.

Our Otago-Southland reporter Timothy Brown visited the town and spoke to locals about its history - and future.