Coal Dust and, Slack
Dear Aunt Daisy, Your query about coal dust and slack, from "F.E.W.," Thames, is undoubtedly a burning question this time of the year. I’m sure my suggestion, if given a trial, will please "F.E.W." and many other listeners, My late husband was interested in the coal trade for years, and he disliked tipping coal on to half a box of slack. It is essential to have a box of shallow depth, or a flat floor, barricaded off. When it is possible to reach a spot on the bottom, shovel your coal from that spot, and one will find that all fine coal ig lifted along with the heavier lumps, and the amount of slack, if any, that is left before the next sack is due, is negligible. To those who have a surplus, I suggest that they scoop it up into a bucket and use on windy days or with coke. It will bank up your fire.
"Coalman’s
Widow,"
Ellerslie.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 31, Issue 782, 16 July 1954, Page 23
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164Coal Dust and, Slack New Zealand Listener, Volume 31, Issue 782, 16 July 1954, Page 23
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