SHORTAGE OF COAL SUPPLIES.
TRAIN TRAFFIC MAY BE AFFECTED. Dunedin, May 3. Speaking to a deputation on Saturday, Sir James Allen said the coal -shortage was so serious that at any moment the Government might have to cut off everything superfluous in railway traffic, and it might even have to cut off passenger trains, hut. if such restrictions were necessary it 1 would only be for very essential reasons. The coal question was most serious, and unless the Government could improve supplies be looked *with some trepidation do the winter.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 1973, 6 May 1919, Page 2
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90SHORTAGE OF COAL SUPPLIES. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 1973, 6 May 1919, Page 2
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