By David Cook
Craig Potton, NZ$49.95 | Reviewed by Andy Palmer

IN THE Waikato, over the river from Huntly, are a number of small towns which existed largely to work the coal fields. Rotowaro was one of those communities. If you drive through the area today you will see next to nothing indicating the presence of the town at all.

Rotowaro has the dubious honour of being closed down and the population relocated by State Coal Mines (as Solid Energy was then known) because they needed the coal over which the town had grown.

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