COAL SHORTAGE
POSITION NOT SERIOUS RESULT OF ’QUAKE Monday’s earthquake caused a shortage of Westport Coal in Auckland, but it is now expected that production will commence again next week, in which case supplies should arrive here eight or ten days later. The chief consumers in Auckland are the Auckland Gas Company, the Devonport Steam Ferry Company and the freezing works and the brick kilns. All carry large reserves of coal, but the fact that operations had ceased at Westport, mainly on account of railway damage, at a time when the strike at Newcastle had created a general shortage, caused some anxiety in Auckland.
The collier Canopus discharged a cargo of coal at Auckland early this week and, after sheltering from th* storm at Kawau on Wednesday, left on Thursday for the South.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 696, 22 June 1929, Page 28
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133COAL SHORTAGE Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 696, 22 June 1929, Page 28
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