Heating Christchurch Girls’ High School
Sir, — Mr Bowron, the chairman of the board, comments on the ridiculousness of the Department of Education having issued instructions to use mainly coal heating to support the mines of the West Coast. He hoped that the board could get past this problem. How is Mr Bowron going to heat hjs school? Solar heating perhaps — not in Christchurch this winter, the gasworks are in a bad way; electricity blows out or it is cut off if a load goes on; oil is far too expensive, and with overseas funds involved, the Government is hardly likely to consider the school a special case. Do not think that the mines are getting a big rakeoff from the coal they sell. My association’s members supply coal to Christchurch schools, and it does not cost the taxpayer 1c in subsidy or handouts to run their mines. The article they sell is far the cheapest source of energy known.—Yours, etc. J. H. MULLIGAN, Secretary, Inangahua District Coat Mine Owners Assn., Reefton.
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