WAIKATO COAL INDUSTRY.

Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 129, 3 June 1930, Page 6

WAIKATO COAL INDUSTRY.

OUTPUT OF THE MINES,

(To the Editor.) .' > Your correspondent Mr. W. C. Davies , Huntly, criticises the accuracy 0 f m» address to Rotarians. If Mr. Davies win?? the trouble to again read the "Star" in , a report of my address appeared he will that I do not, as his letter assprfc that ''the Waikato collieries are to rla' e producing two-thirds of their outwit" wZiSSy Mr. Davies picks out a portion of a which is quite .misleading The 3? ce ' report reads as follows: "During the'ft years they had seen the establishment > number of comparatively small co-oll* mines operating m the Waikato district mines did not individually turn oi.f esa great tonnage, but their collective ouwW more than sufficient to absorb the trade oyer the last few years. He bewL v was well within the mark in stating tffi principal Waikato collieries were to-ri™ 7 producing two-thirds of their Although not reported in the "Star" T j it quite clear in my address that 'the tofi production of coa was greater than in f O 2 years, but was divided anion- too mam? ? lienes. My statement still stands good +S the principal Waikato collieries operating? 1020 are to-day only producing :,2g two-thirds ot their 1920 output. In lfl2n\\ y collieries were working full Le. ToTyfe probably average less than half time. I repeat that for the trade available the® too many collieries operating uneebnom S Regarding Mr. Davies' sweeping TemwX misleading statements, all I wfsh to - that any intelligent individual can Verify YJ' accuracy by the merest inquiry. When JmSt ing the New Zealand Coaflii OwnerSg' ciation m November last Colonel Hnllf stated: "There is no doubt that the coaM tiy is over-capitalised in production capacitv equipment and man power. The demandYoS be more economically handled with tW quarters of the collieries in existence." C. M. richwhite.