COALS FOR RAILWAYS.
The State coal-mines of New Zealand are not the boon to the Dominion that some would suppose. A return just published' shows that 42,308 tons of imported coal was used on the New Zealand railways lasifc year, and 159,422 tons of New Zealand •coal. The former, which is regarded as the superior coal of the two, cost only 3d per ion more than the New Zealand article, and this after paying freight and charges. There must be something radically wrong when the charge to rthe New Zealand railways for its own hard coal is £1 os' lid per ton.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10170, 21 February 1911, Page 4
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102COALS FOR RAILWAYS. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10170, 21 February 1911, Page 4
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