CANTERBURY COAL OWNERS

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3393, 26 January 1920, Page 5

CANTERBURY COAL OWNERS

DESIRE EXCURSION TRAINS ' DISCONTINUED. g’ CHRISTCHURCH, this day. ‘ At a meeting of the Executive of “the North Canterbury Coal Merchants Association the following mot’io’n was ’passed and forwarded to the Minister [of Muni~tions.—ln view of the treatment received by retail coal mercthants through the present -basis of allotment, which places them at the bottom of the list for supplies, and in consequence of the large amount of coal at present in stock by the Railway Department, retail coal merchants think that under the present circumstances, with such shortage of hard coa.l, all railway services other than essential be cut out in the meantime, so that the proportion of coal which is at present used to run excursion and other unnecessary trains be allowed for the use of the trade, so that the general public. be able ‘to ob- * tain a small proportion of hard coal% to mix with the lignites which they‘ have had to put up with. j