WORLD'S COAL SHORTAGE.
••The greatest coal thortage in history" us predicted for next winter in the Inited States uulfM production i- .-limulate! -■» I per cent, or more immediately. The posi-1 tion i- so scrinun. it ha- been stated, that ; at the present rate of production one; industrial plant in ever } eight in the; I'nitcd Mate- will have" Io shut down' during next winter fi-r lacV. of coal. Our- '■ ing the lirst 1\ iveekH of the present year the production of bituminous coal is (m.r>( K>.l" M) tons less than the ,"130,000.000 tons required. These figures are given by the National Coal Associa-j tion in an appeal to the public to lay in j stocks promptly in anticipation of a shorla-c which will B end up prices to a [irohibithe Amongst the contriluitiiig causes to this shortage are refusal of many miners who were puf oil' during the warm weather to return to work, and the emigration of thousands of Kuropean workmen. l<. is expected the shortage of coal will be worldwide on account of the extraordinary demands for industrial requirements since the of peace. It is thus evident that New Zealand is lint sin<rulnr in suffering from a shortage of coal. ,
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Auckland Star, Volume L, Issue 202, 26 August 1919, Page 8
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201WORLD'S COAL SHORTAGE. Auckland Star, Volume L, Issue 202, 26 August 1919, Page 8
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