COAL SHORTAGE
POSITION GETTING WORSE
MR. MASSEY'S COMMENT
"Wo are having very serious difficulties willi our coal supplies, and the position in some respects is getting worse from day to day," said the Trimo Minister in the Ilouso of Representatives after Mr. Wilford (Hutt) had suggested that the Government should make inquiries regarding a new fuel secured from petroleum . waste. This fuel has been used successfully, in France, and Mr. Massey said ho would be glad to hear that supplies wore available for New Zealand.
The Prime Minister added that he could not see the end of the Dominion's present difficulty. The public probably would have to suffer the coal shortage for a considerable time to come. The only remedies he could discever were tho development of 'hy-dro-elcctric power and the increasing of the number of miners. The Government was going to leave nothing undone to hasten the development of water power, and he believed that a substantial increase in the number of miners employed in the coal mines would be) made within the next few months "We cannot allow things to go 011 much longer as they are going," added Mr. Massey.
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Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 301, 14 September 1920, Page 4
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193COAL SHORTAGE Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 301, 14 September 1920, Page 4
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