PRICE OF COAL.
Iu 3!»lo tho Mnsterton gasworks paid
14s <Jd per'ton for the same class of coal as. it is now paying 34? 6d for today. It would be interesting to know, as Mr Blackman says, who is reaping
the benefit of the extra pound per ton. There is no outside control of onr New Zealand coal, and consequently this stock argument to account for the rise in the price of coul vanishes in thin air. The coal miners have not received that extra pound per ton. The public have long ago come to a conclusion a? to who is receiving the bulk of this
extra pound. The whole sorry business suggests that the day has arrived when the Government of this country should possess steamers of its own for such purposes as the carriage of coal. The Commonwealth line of steamers is keeping down shipping freights between Australasia and the Old World, and a New- Zealand line of steamers would have the same result Car as the carriage of goods by sea between the North and South Islands is concerned. Some day the Government of this country may decide that if it is good in the public interests for Australia to establish a line of .steamers, it is
sound policy for the Dominion of New Zealann to do so. The public anxiously Lope that that day is not far distant.
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Otaki Mail, Volume XXVIII, 15 March 1920, Page 4
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232PRICE OF COAL. Otaki Mail, Volume XXVIII, 15 March 1920, Page 4
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