COAL SHORTAGE.
CHBIBTCHUHCH FAMILIES SAID TO BE SUFFERING PKIVATiONS
Describing his question as one of “extreme urgency,” Mr L. M. Isitt (Christchurch North) asked the Prime Minister if anything could possibly be done to meet the existing- coal shortage in .Christchurch. In this bitterly cold weather merchants were shivering in their offices because they could not get half a sack of coal. One family he had heard of had spent last Sunday in the kitchen, because they could only find enough coal for the one fire, if that was the position of fairly well-to-do people, what must the condition of the poorer families be. He hoped that the Government would find some way of helping the people of Christchurch in this emergency. The Prime Minister said that the question was rather one for the Minister for Hallways than for himself. But he had had occasion to confer with the Minister for Hallways that morning, and the Minister had assured him that everything that could possibly be done would be done to get a supply of coal from Westport into Christchurch to meet the emergency that had arisen.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 2614, 2 August 1923, Page 3
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187COAL SHORTAGE. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 2614, 2 August 1923, Page 3
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