DEMAND FOR COAL.
- —r • FOR RAILWAYS AND INDUSTRY. (P.A.) WELLINGTON, October 21. The company representatives at yesterday’s coal conference had estimated that coal production in the Waikato would be down by 30,000 tons this year , said the Minister for Mines (the Hon. P. C. Webb) when interviewed to-day. The phenomenal demand for coal occasioned by the generation of electricity from steam plants, he said, had put a big tax on the coal industry. An additional 200,000 tons must b 9 produced in the Dominion each year. Expanding secondary industries required anadditional 150,000 tons yearly, while the railways were consuming approximately 50,000 tons more yearly than in 1935. He was confident this demand could be met by the existing mines, without necessitating the opening of new mines. When certain electrical material arrived and the rivers were harnessed for electricity, there would be a slump in the coal trade for a time.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 62, Issue 9, 22 October 1941, Page 2
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