Walter Everson Gardner (11 May 1873 – 14 March 1943) was an Australian mining engineer, surveyor, and manager in Broken Hill, New South Wales.
[citation needed] He moved to Broken Hill in 1897 to take up a post of assistant surveyor with BHP, which involved a great deal of underground survey work.
Firemen were unable to approach the seat of the fire, and efforts to flood the area through the old Kintore shaft and through holes left be the ground creeping came to nothing.
[9] Manager James Hebbard retired at the end of 1924 and Gardner was appointed in his place,[10] remaining there for the rest of his working life.
In 1928, with metals prices and demand plummeting, he sought a six month variation to the terms of labour employment to reduce the cost of operating the mine.