COAL SITUATION
STATEMENT BY THE PREMIER. (Per United Press Association.) WELLINGTON, June 1. The Prime Minister to-day made a statement reviewing the coal situation. He said: “A careful scrutiny of the figures covering the coal produced clearly indicates the impossibility at the present time of increasing the allocation of coal for household purposes without seriously interfering with the operations of important industrial concerns and public services on which the prosperity and progress of the Dominion so largely depend. The shortage of coal is universal throughout the Dominion and is not confined to any particular locality. If the insistent demands of some district* now being made were acceded to it would only be done by withdrawing supplies from others where the shortage is just as acute. The position is being very carefully sifted by the Goal Control Department, and the coal trade committees in the four centres are doing their utmost to distribute all coal arriving in their respective districts so as to avoid as far as possible any undu* hardship to the public.”
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Southland Times, Issue 18837, 2 June 1920, Page 5
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173COAL SITUATION Southland Times, Issue 18837, 2 June 1920, Page 5
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