PRICE OF COAL.
T__f PER CENT EJCREASK (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) . DUNEDIN, this day. . The price of coal is to be advanced About 10 per. cent within ai week or so. It is eta tod that the increase will 'be general throughout" the Dominion. .Tins- i_ .-not- entirely unexpected, as .the decrease in the output ©f edal !has jbeen : serious this "year. Already . _'rgher Tates Ihave been charged in the South for. steam coai, and although the above message does not mention (household coal, it would _eem to indicate that a generail advance is to take place. One coal mine manager, wJien seen regarding the matters-said:'he ihad already received news" from Gisborne and the : 'South, and toad little doubt "that the advance would be followed in Auckland, as ooal is now very scarce.
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Auckland Star, Volume XLVIII, Issue 68, 20 March 1917, Page 2
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