A WIN FOR OIL.
NEWCASTLE’S LOSS. : Bv Electric Telegraph—Copyright i.Lkited Press Association.] . (Received 9.25 a.m.) Sydney, August 28. . Mr John Brown, Newcastle, givin t evidence before tiie Miners’ Wage Board, said that recently he was offoi ed a two years’ contract for supplying coal, but lost it because he could no give a guarantee of continuity in sup ply. The opening of the Panam'. Canal would cause Newcastle to. los. all its trade on the west coast o South America, which would be train ferred to the United States; it woulp also have competition from India am China, A WIN FOR OIL FUEL. The people negotiating said : “It wii bo oil or coal.” And it was oil.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 97, 28 August 1913, Page 5
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117A WIN FOR OIL. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 97, 28 August 1913, Page 5
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