COAL FOR RAILWAYS
NO LARGE STOCK ON HAND. A suggestion has been made that the Railway Department must now be in aposition' to slacken its demands for coal,and thus enable larger supplies to be made available for domestic use. When asked about this matter to-day, the Prime Minister, who is also Minister of Railways, said that the Department was not in a position to do this; its supplies were not so good at present as a few months .age, and, although the output from the mines had increased, it was not yet back to. normal. The Department, he added, had been giving supplies to quite a number of local bodies to tide them over difficult periods *
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Evening Post, Volume XCIX, Issue 124, 26 May 1920, Page 8
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116COAL FOR RAILWAYS Evening Post, Volume XCIX, Issue 124, 26 May 1920, Page 8
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