DEARTH OF CEMENT

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 68, 13 December 1919, Page 8

DEARTH OF CEMENT

TRAMWAYS WORK HELD UP. Since tlip shortage of oment was reported in U'eiKugton a week ago no supplies iiavp conn? to hand, and the result is tliat. building and construction .work of all kinds is now held up. Tt was hoped that the work of reconstructing the tramways trucks along Lambton Quaj would lie complrtrd well before Christina* in ordev that the thoroughfare could be thoroughly cleaned up lor the holiday season, but unfortunately the work iiiis had hi bo suspended as there is r,o cenent with which to mnka the concrete for the ballasting of the tinek. This is not by any menus the \ oiiiy bij; work which has hml to be mispMiiled owin;: to the cement famine. No work has !i"-p«i done on the Oriental ijny seo-wnli for :i weolc, and a big concrete strcet-probi-tion wall at P.ritcivart Street is also he!il up. Private contractors arc feeling the pinch, and in several ciist! win-in concr.-b is bcin:: used workhas ?topp:'il, which i? a serious matter lin: only to t'i« .-wner but to the men en ployed on tlw job. Inquirie.-. instituted yeslerday showed Hi::! the coni-nt faniin; , j< not merely lor:;!. Club.tchurcli is said to be in as Kid a Dli'jhf :n Wellington. Ordinarily that cityV n'(|;i>cmcnts witp supplu-d from the liillmm works, out of Diinciliii. but owiiv? to the clcsii'g down or the urnes thw is no coal for tho-furaacc, and e<uisff|iifnt!y there is no output. 'Hie ceil shortage at tl'O CioldiMi Hay Compaiiy's works lias ulw been acute, and a full output has not ben pp.«iMo lately. No esment is ct.inin!! from Auckland. Tt is tlionnht Unit a small sliipmpiit of al.-out 100 tons nwy como to hmul -from tli» Golden Hay Coni'iany's works on Tuesday njxt, lint Illil tuns where 1610 lons aro required wiil afford small rellof.