SUPPLIES OF COAL.

Auckland Star, Volume XLIV, Issue 278, 21 November 1913, Page 6

SUPPLIES OF COAL.

STEAMERS FROM NEWCASTLE. i MERCHANTS P.OOKTXG ORDERS. j A= far n? c:in he ascertainpd there ifi no ron-'iii to fenr ;i n.iiiii: :i« the re-ult of nnv shortage in oo : il supplier. Although thi" position wae regarded a« likely to b<>cume acute when the -trike set in. some two or three thousand tons of Newcastle coal have i»ince been placed on the market, and arrangements have been made to discharge four eolliors (non-in the stream I uiihin n few diivs. The steamer Kurow, fr»m liiis partially disnharfred. about r>oo tons t-till remaining in her holds. On Monday jn>xt the Koromiko is due to cummenco discharging coal at <'hel-ea for tile Mifrar Work?, nud tiir idup within the next few d;iys from Newcastle. It i, understood that the eoa] merchants are booking larjjp orders ivith | guarantees of delivery dnrins December. Coke in in good supply, and is Ibeinjr largely used by factories, eti\, in lieu of coaw.