RAILWAYS NEED COAL
SERVICES MAY BE REDUCED. While the public are asking when, the Railway Department will be ready to'reestablish tlii\ services that irere given to them in tho days before the big;war curtailment was made necessary by the shortage of men, the concern of the Department'is lest it may be necessary to cut down services heavily owing to the great shortage of coal. The cause' of the shortage is the total interruption of shipping between Newcastle and New Zealand, and the reduction of the New Zealand output owing to the , epidemic, . which affected the miners in common with other classes of workers. It had been expected that thousands of tons of Newcastle coal , would have been brought to this country in the past two months. It ij feared that unless the coal supnly improves son, a cut in serricee wiU'hara to be made. . '
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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 88, 8 January 1919, Page 4
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144RAILWAYS NEED COAL Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 88, 8 January 1919, Page 4
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