SUPPLYING THE COAL NEED

Auckland Star, Volume LXXIII, Issue 174, 25 July 1942, Page 4

SUPPLYING THE COAL NEED

B E niS, 0f T T c , onditi P ns the necessity to maintain and increase coal in Anctiiin , £, g Slnce become acute in the United Kingdom and in Australia, and the blunt statement yesterday by the Minister of Minp=: «nn P nronf? th ° fact th ?£ " is in New Zeafand also For reasons apparent to everyone, the Dominion's dependence on coal has increnspd sharply since Japan entered the war, and all indications are that this Cpend » !n » e Wlll contlnue for some time after the war ends It would be unsafe to assume otherwise. The expansion of the industrv r a °^ maf t le ,"l CeSSar if is , therefore unlikely to be temporary anf if this Is accepted there should be little difficulty in overcoming the problem hLo Z?' hou r Si " g ; Construction jobs of great magnTtude and Jariltv n ! ) Un j er n ' and man y have been successfully completed in the c^nTtr n uctVno r f e hon« m< } nthß \ and the technical problems involved in ovcrcome Jfhffi ° and the Government will not afTow flnancl ?o be an