COAL PRODUCTION
INCREASED OUTPUT IN NEW ZEALAND (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day. Coal production, in New Zealand last year amounted to 2,277,799 tons —an increase in output of 137,582 tons, or 6.43 per cent over the production for 1936. Figures relating to the classes of coal produced in 1937, the number of mines operating and the employment provided by the industry were made available last evening by the Minister of Mines, the Hon P. C Webb. The total production of coal was therefore 2,277,799 tons. “There were 195 mines in operation in the Dominion in 1936 and a total of 4257 men were employed—l 469 in the North Island, 1850 on the West Coast and 938, in the Otago- and Southland district,” said Mr Webb. “In 1936 1103 persons were employed above and 3154 below ground. There were 172 coal mines in operation in the Dominion in 1937 and a total of 4417 men were employed--1478 in the North Island, 1956 on the West Coast, and 983 in the Otago and Southland district. Of the persons ordinarily employed in or about coal mines during 1937, 1129 were employed above ground and 3288 below ground.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 2 June 1938, Page 3
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