THE CEMENT SHORTAGE
DUE TO 'INSUFFICIENT COAL. liy Telegraph—Press Association. Dunedin, December 16. In.common with other parts of the Dominion, Dunedin also is suffering from a shortage of cement. The manager of the .\iilburn Lime'nnd Cement Company, in discussing the shortage with a 'reporter, put his finger on what a mien red to he the real reason for the shortage when ho said it was due to the local manufacturers' inability to obtain siilticient supplies of bituminous coal for burning the cement clinkers. Tho New Zealand cement: mills now operating have plants that are capable of producing from 10,000 to 20.000 tons per month, and the demand throughout tho Dominion is about 8500 lons a month. Owing chiefly to the coal shortage tho cement mills" have only been able to Mipplv TOO tons net- month since .Tur.o last, and the aeciimulaiioi) of the shortage has now made tho position serious.
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Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 71, 17 December 1919, Page 6
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