COAL OUTPUT.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 2017, 19 August 1919, Page 3

COAL OUTPUT.

LESS THAN LAST YEAR

Some figures relating to the coal production of the ’ New Zealand mines were given to a reporter at Wellington yesterday by the Hon. A. M. Myers, Minister in Charge of Cfoal Distribution? Mr Myers said that his Department obtains monthly particulars of output from the principal mines, and the figures now to hand show that tfce output from these mines for July last was 138,240 tons. The output from the same mines for July, 1018, was 180,118, so that there was a decrease in production from the colleries referred to during July of this year compared with July last year, of 41,878 tons. The importations for last month totalled 31,715 tons, as against 24,727 tons imported during July, 1018. The increase of 0,988 tons in importations makes the net reduction in supplies from both sources for the month of July, 1019, as compared with the same month for last year, 34,890 tons. The output from the principal West Coast mines was 78,231 tons last month, as against 93,537 tor July, 1918, This represents a reduced output of hard coal when compared with July, 1018, of 15,300 tons.

Asked as to the quantity of coal ’actually received by (he Railway Department during the month of July, Air Myers stated that figures to hand show that this was 18,089 tons, which includes brown coal and lignite from Taupiri and other mines.