COAL DUMPED AT STOCKTON

Press, Volume XCVI, Issue 28434, 14 November 1957, Page 13

COAL DUMPED AT STOCKTON

Mines Department’s Explanation

(New Zealand Press Associationi WELLINGTON, November 12. Coal dumped is not coal destroyed. said a Mines Department official today when he was asked ? to comment on a report from t Greymoulh that the Stockton mine * Shad been allowed to dump 1000 J tons of coal. | t i Dumping simply meant that p )when there was an accumulation J of stocks, coal was stored on 0 isome open site from which it 0 could be easily recovered when * 1 required, he said. J i Dumping was usually due to t lack of orders and. in the case of * the West Coast mines, to bad bar J I conditions. This meant ships could t not come in to uplift the coal. * When the storage bins became full. J dumping was sometimes resorted 5 Ito as a routine measure in marketing arrangements.

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