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BRITISH COAL PRODUCTION BIG SAVING EFFECTED. FURTHER EFFORTS NECESSARY. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 11.35 a.m.) RUGBY, February 17. The Minister of Fuel, Major Lloyd George, broadcasting tonight, said the, gap between the production and consumption of coal had been closed. Last July, the gap was about eleven million tons and it had been closed by the efforts of consumers and producers. Consumers had saved nearly four million tons and the extra output asked from the miners wbuld be considerably exceeded. The Minister said this year there would be fewer men than ever in the pits and this would have to be met by more mechanisation and the concentration of miners at the most productive pits.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 18 February 1943, Page 4
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119GAP CLOSED Wairarapa Times-Age, 18 February 1943, Page 4
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