CONSERVATION OF COAL URGED

Dominion, Volume 19, Issue 118, 12 February 1926, Page 4

CONSERVATION OF COAL URGED

Bi Telegr'aph— Ph ess Association Hamilton, February 11. Sir Frank Heath, in an interview, counselled New Zealand to conserve her coal supplies, which, he said, were relatively very small. While hydro-elec-tricity was a cheap source of heat for specialised industries, it was not an economical source for general manufacturing. He was greath’ impressed with the co-operative production movement, and said that the growth of the vast organisation of the New Zealand Co-operative Dairy Company, with numerous butter, cheese, casein and milk powder factories, box and tin-niaking plants, timber'resources, and its own coal-mine was the most amazing thing he had seen for a long time. He thought that there was enormous scope for scientific investigation into the full utilisation of waste dairy products, as the industry was onlv in its infancy.