THE COAL OUTPUT.
MINISTERIAL STATEMENT. “Presumably the miners have discarded the ‘go-slow’ policy,” said the Hon. Arthur Myers to a Post reporter, “and are now turning out the normal output, although- I cannot speak definitely until I get the returns, which will be furnished me at the end of the month.” The Minister gave some interesting details of our coal supplies. For the period from January to Api’il this year the importations of coal amounted to 143,1(15 tons, including 34,415 tons for the Admiralty, as against 1)4,877 tons for the corresponding period of 101(1. The importations of coal for the past three* years had been as under: 1914, 518,070 tons; 1915, 353,471 tons; 1910, 293,950 tons.
The output of the principal mines in New Zealand from January to April of this year had amounted to 515,142 tons, as compared with 037,155 tons for the corresponding period of 1916.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 1716, 24 May 1917, Page 3
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148THE COAL OUTPUT. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 1716, 24 May 1917, Page 3
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