THE CEMENT SHORTAGE.
NO SUPPLIES TILL JANUARY. The Cement Distribution Committee have been informed >y Wilson's Portland Cement Company that they do not see the slightest prospect of any cement into Taranaki until about the middle of January- In explaining the position the company has written to the committee as follows: — "During tyst week we loaded the Ivnmona (1050 tons) foi* Napier and Wellington. '-Both tiie Board of Trade and ourselves tried to arrange a .large steamer for New Plymouth, but there was none offering. This week all the ■cement that we can make will lie brought into* Auckland as, owing to the Kamona loading, we are right out. For next week the s.s. Ngatoro has been arranged to load 1250 tons for Canterbury, and, with the stock of cement on hand to-day and what we' are likely to make during the next seven or eight days, less what we shall draw for Auckland, it seems that it will take us all we know to have the 1250 tons for the Ngatoro. "Much as we desire to help Taranaki, you can 6ee that our supplies are going out to different parts of New Zealand and we cannot send out what we literally have not got."
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Taranaki Daily News, 9 December 1920, Page 4
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205THE CEMENT SHORTAGE. Taranaki Daily News, 9 December 1920, Page 4
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