THE COAL SUPPLY.
SPEAKIN(I in Christchurch recently the manager of a large local coal company deprecated the attempts made to create an impression that tln> coal shortage in (he South was such as to cause alarm, and lo foster the idea (hat (here was a possibility of a coal “famine.” “Undoubtedly," he said, “there is a shortage, bn), although householders may have to forego their preference for screened coal and exercise more economy, (here is nothing lo indicate that stocks are insuflicienl lo cope with essential requiremenls.” He went on to say that, owing to the enlistment of hundreds of miners, the output had necessarily been reduced. Tin* requiremenls of the Admiralty and the Government for troopships and railways had first to be met, but present indications were that, if economy were exercised, a sufficient margin would remain to obviate anything in the nature of inconvenience lo householders.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 1569, 27 June 1916, Page 2
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148THE COAL SUPPLY. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 1569, 27 June 1916, Page 2
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