THE GOAL TRADE.
STATE AS RETAILER IN WELLINGTON.
(P#r Press Association.)
Wellington, last night
The Government has taken over on lease the premises of the Westport Coal Company at Wellington as a going concern, that is, the Stats becomes owner of the osal yards, working plant, and distributing equipment, and enters into business as a retailer of State-mined ooal, The Westport Company in Wellington last year turned over about 15,000 tons of ooal, and has a monthly turnover of about 60 tons of firewood, It employs on an average about 12 men, and owns eight or nine horses and cans. I* is announced that Ooal will be delivered for oash at 28s per lOD, 14s 6d per half-ton, 7s 6d per quarter ton, and is 6J per cwt. Government proposes to initiate the reta ; l trade-in other parts of the colony, and in others to give fouriiQtyalitifls the opportunity of dotog to
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXII, Issue 1724, 14 April 1906, Page 3
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152THE GOAL TRADE. Gisborne Times, Volume XXII, Issue 1724, 14 April 1906, Page 3
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