AUSTRALIA'S COAL TRADE
£10,000,000 LOST THROUGH STRIKES. According to a report received by the I Premier from tho Commercial Gonunissioner for the'Commonwealth'in the East. (Mr. Suttor), the loss oaused through strikes during the past 'few years has seriously, affected the coal trade with the East! .He'estimates the loss at £10,000,000. During 1915. Sir. Suttor states, the consumption of coal imported at China ports, Hong-kong, the Philippines, 'Straits Settlements Indian, ports, Java ports, Frenoh-fiidor Chinese ports, Siam, and Ceylon) equalled over. 5,500,000. tons. While it was admitted that there, was no coal in Asia to be compared with 'the . New South Wales coal, uncertain supplies had forced attention to other markets, and it was to ho feared that it would take a long time for Australia—and New South' Wales in particular—to livo down the unenviable reputation gained as a result of the strikes. Not only had strikes killed our coal trade, but they had also crippled other branches of commerce; and so long as Australian exporters had to condition their quotations or contracts with the "strike clause;" so long reap the harvest of markets that could and should be controlled from Australia. Tho uncertainty of supplies of tho suporior coal from Australia.had boon the moans of stimulating inferior coalmining developments m India, British Malaya, China, Japan, Borneo, bnmatra, and French Indo-Cluna. .
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Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2986, 25 January 1917, Page 9
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220AUSTRALIA'S COAL TRADE Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2986, 25 January 1917, Page 9
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