COAL SUPPLIES.
NO DANGER OF SHORTAGE FOR RAILWAYS. There is no immediate danger of a serious shortage of coal on the railways. "We are holding our own," said an officer of the Department yesterday. "We are obtaining nearljj enough for South Island requirements from the West Coast to keep us going." The position was being met quite satisfactorily. A prominent coal merchant said yesterday that the present year had been the worst in the history of the trade in the matter of interruptions. Nature, it seemed, had called up all her reserves to harass the suppliers. This week's wet weather has intensified the prevailing shortage, and merchants are expecting a rush of orders to-day for stocks to carry over the weekend. Although householders are acting fairly in not placing orders larger than for their immediate requirements, supplies are only being maintained in hand-to-mouth fashion. Merchants in the City were disconcerted yesterday by a telegram from the Linton Coal Company advising that the Eailway Department was not accepting consignments for north of Otokaio, through the flooding of the Taieri river. This means that supplies of lignite coal from the south are cut off from Christchurch.
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Press, Volume LXV, Issue 19675, 19 July 1929, Page 5
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