Coal

Press, Volume CI, Issue 29894, 7 August 1962, Page 3

Coal

Sir, —I do not know where your correspondent Arthur Lush got his figures when he states that over 90 per cent, of the heat is wasted in using coal in locomotion and in domestic fires. His estimate of over 90 per cent, seems a bit rich to me, for as an elderly person I find much comfort from the oldfashioned open fire burning a bit of coal and putting on a few logs of wood or pine needles. There is always something to look at in the open fire and you can obtain all the heat that you require. Seventy years agcr coal was 2s for a full sack. Now it is Ils 3d far a small bag, so it looks as if the coal people have priced themselves out of the market. When one reads that the Huntly mine has just dumped 14.500 tons of good slack, which could have been briquetted for fuel, it makes one think Mr Lush can have his central heating and electric heaters but give me the good old open fire any time. —Yours, etc.. OLD TIMER. August 6. 1962.