THE COAL SHORTAGE
GOVERNMENT. ACTION.
To relieve in some measure the shortage of coal which is causing so much' annovance and anxiety to householders in Wellington the State Depot is distributing a consignment of 300 tons for domestic consumption in AVellington this •week. It is hoped that additional supplies will be available in the course of a few days. ■ ■ . What is the Government doing about the coal shortage? In answering this question yesterday the Acting-Prime Minister (Sir James' Allen) 6iid: The fctovernmeut is doing everything that is Mlmanly possible. We. have specially ordered the eoalminers who are with tha forces to be sent back to New- Zealand, and we hope that the last of them will leave England during the present month. AVe are also communicating with the Imperial Government asking for the use ol ships for the carriage of coal from Australia. So that we are.tackling the problem at two pointe-endeavouring to increase homo production, and trying to inorease importation of coal .from Newcastle. It was announced some time ago that we had secured {wo ships in which to bring over 10,000 tens, and we are trying to get more/'
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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 111, 4 February 1919, Page 4
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191THE COAL SHORTAGE Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 111, 4 February 1919, Page 4
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