WEST COAST COAL
PORTS NOT TO BLAME
P.A. WESTPORT, This Day, "With the long lines of wharves about three-quarters of a mile in length," remarked Mr. C. H. Thomas, a memfcer of the Westport Borough Council, "there was yesterday only one vessel berthed there, the steamer Kartigi. Contrary to the opinion formed in certain parts of the North Island, judging by some resolutions recently passed by various organisations there, it is not the fault of the Westport Harbour that the North Island has suffered so severely from a shortage of coal. The Westport harbour is capable of shipping all the coal produced from the whole of the mines on the West Coast, and even then would not be overworked. The quicker a railway is carried through to Charleston and Brighton, enabling the great fields of coal in those districts to be developed and the coal taken through to Westport, their natural waterway, the less likelihood will there be of the North Island having to undergo-other coalless winters."
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXVIII, Issue 55, 2 September 1944, Page 5
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167WEST COAST COAL Evening Post, Volume CXXXVIII, Issue 55, 2 September 1944, Page 5
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