SUPPLY OF CEMENT.

Taranaki Daily News, 3 July 1920, Page 4

SUPPLY OF CEMENT.

METHOD OF ALLOCATION. ANOTHER SHIPMENT SOON. • The distribution oommittee appointea by the Board of Trade to control cement supplies in Taranakl met at Stratford yesterday, when a lawe num. her of applications ware dealt The allocation of a small Bhipntest ex* pected to arrive at Patea to>day wai gone into, and in every inst&QM: preference was given to tlie application* ol dairy farmers requiring the raaterial foi the completion of cowsheds 0»d th« erection of milking machines. ■ Thii counse was adopted as the cqnmittei realised that this olass of wofk wilf have to be wound up in about a month, when the milking season commences. In a number of instances as many as three forms had been filled in by the same applicant, and this resulted in the request being struck out "by the committee, who deprecated the practice, and desire to eliminate recurrences of the kind. That such a step is necessary is evident from past experience, when, as the outcome of putting requests through a number of different channels, it has been found that individual jippli* cants have received more than one Bupply, the consequence being that other legitimate demands could not be satisfied. As every, agent Into equal opportunities of getting his orders, Inllllled, people requiring supplies may make their application through any agent, but. not more than one. Advice lias been received by the committee from the Board of Trade that endeavors are being made to arrange for a further shipment of a considerable quantity of cement to New Plvmouth, but nothing definite has yet been arrived at. MORE COAL AVAILABLE • By Telegraph—Press Association. Wellington, Last Sight. Mr. Mawey has been informed by iho directors of' Hikurangi mine that last, week they were able to make 484 tons of coal available for cement works/ For some weeks past the amount- available for this purpose ha* not been greater than 08 tons.