COAL AND SHIPPING.

Taranaki Daily News, 24 April 1920, Page 5

COAL AND SHIPPING.

A DOUBLE SHORTAGE. WHAT ARE THE~PROSPECTS FOR COMING WINTER? mmi that the working people are not getting coal because large quantities are being sent, to the country d"triet a or freeing and other purpose*," remarked Mr. M. J. Reardon, secretary of the ireenng Workers' Union, to a Wellington Times reporter. "I hope the Government of the dav <s making sufficient provision for the supply of coal to t1,5 working peopU of the city during the coming wi„ ter but ,» B p U e ,f assuring me ° "£ pcarmg occasionally i» "tl.e papers 't seems to me that the thing & o p e *' £ doubt At Castleclih", Walnut I«S week the works had to close down tern-" poranly because they only had thwe The Imlay wwks at th P *■ stopped because their freezing Xmbe s were full. The following day TrohT a a ;!..- reSSel - arr , iVed and " a little teter a collier arrived. One was jamZaZT" ° f th<> PhOTtaKe of «"d apace °" aCC ° ln,t ° f the 8ho ««Se of dustry there K anotiier very serious asf h™„ * i. ay ?' so after the IneMents I have just related some coal arrived ai Wanganui, but before it arrived a Home 1,,, er ,va s lyin off th ond men The two f . " . l ° nTcoV'" le l WMn the « r "g coal or loading meat; they chose to oad meat and were perforce obliged to v-n ™ n pass °" t0 another port Without doubt the whole country is'in a serious position. The short ageVshin Ping for meat would have approached a .Jmtttr this year had it ?„t b n for the providential rainfall Wc have been having chirinß the mmaer « « in «■ dry season, or even in an ordinary easo,,, It would have been 01 the farmers to carry their stocks «,, o he present time. As it if, most or the freezing works in the North Isand ]»„ , struggling- f rom day to lay to keep their hands together,' an,! o clear he stock as it was bem* sent forward by the farmers."