PRODUCING COAL.
MORE MIXERS REQUIRED. SAVING BY HYDRO-ELECTRICITY. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Auckland, Last Night. The suggestion forwarded by the Auckland City Council to the Prime Minister on the subject of the coal problem daring the recent coal shortage has evoked from Mr. Massey a reply at lengthy which was put before the Council meeting last night. On the subject of the export of bituminous coal, Mr. Massey points out that of 275,000 tons exported last year none was for trade purposes, but 15,182 tons were for the Admiralty and the balance for bunkering overseas vessels shipping the Dominion's produce. On the subject of the production of coal, the Prime Minister said that everything possible was being done to increase the output, but until there were enough miners to man the existing mines little improvement could be effected by opening new fields. It waq hoped that the steps at present being taken would result in a number of miners arriving <; in New Zealand in the near future. Until the production of the Dominion was materially increased every possible effort must be made by the Government to obtain additional supplies from Newcastle and elsewhere even at the present high cost Replying to the Council's suggestions »s to the supply of hydro-electric power, the Prime Minister stated that the saving last year in Canterbury through the Lake Coleridge scheme as compared with the previous methods of generating power, was over 120,000 tons of coal, or its equivalent in kerosene or petrol
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Taranaki Daily News, 30 October 1920, Page 5
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248PRODUCING COAL. Taranaki Daily News, 30 October 1920, Page 5
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