WORKING OF COAL AREAS
AND RAILWAY LINES,
(11l TELEOKAPn.—rKESS ASSOCIATION.) DUNEDIN, This Day, A deputation from the Bruce County
Council asked the Hon. W. D. S. MacDonald, as Minister of Mines, to support a petition to bo presented to Parliament asking the Government to take action and extend tho Tnratu and Kaitnngata privately-owned railway linos, and connect them, so as to provide one system for a working coal area which at present puts out 450 tons daily, and with the alterations suggested could put out 3000 tons. At present private companies could block companies to bo formed from carrying the coal. Tho Minister said a report on the whole ■coal mines of the Dominion had been prepared, which, with suggestion., would be discussed by Cabinet next Monday.
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Evening Post, Volume XCVII, Issue 130, 4 June 1919, Page 8
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127WORKING OF COAL AREAS Evening Post, Volume XCVII, Issue 130, 4 June 1919, Page 8
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