GOAL POSITION

Evening Post, Volume CXXXVI, Issue 3, 3 July 1943, Page 6

GOAL POSITION

riOPE OF IMPROVEMENT- J^

, were : grounds c forI'believing that/,the -coal position during the\r^jnaiiidfe'r -of: the winter months would be^r.ireasoriably:: ;: satisfactory, stated the Minister,; of.. Mines ;(Mr.' Webb) in; :a letterXreceiv?d: by! Mr. R. McKeen. M;P.;v\f^or^Wellington South, in reply tO^eprfesentations'made by him-to ;the ■Minister. f<VZ < >?'\-.>:- ':•.: >*. ■ •■.'• ■ .■-- ','.

. stated that the difficulty experienced ins^^ 'Wellington had been caused 'through -the ports. at Westport and ? <Greymoi;th;*- being - unworkable owing;,io.■■.heavy, seas' and !inadequate depth-, pf..>\v4terr ori.the. bars. That had seriously-.affected -production at the in|nes,:Avhich'had been thrown idle pii orHinary<\yorkiiig'days,- and the miners ha^ been, unable.to work on Saturdays aslthey,!:had:;agreed to do to/increase produgtibnvfpr. the'winter months. '■'•';. .: However/'v:continued ■ the Minister, 6dme;, improvement had now^b'een made atibb^jGrevrnputh and Westport, and still: ifuythe'r/Improvements ha;d been possible}; By "an;-:adjustment; in. the■:reqiinfementii -of .ithe Military" Forces. D^in'6';^^Vpa>t',twp7'mohth>.?th'e'.M.ill-' t"a)^-lF6rceg; hail 'begn drawing .very h'eayUyj:bh "West Coast coals fpr camps aha},institu.tibns »iri the' so'ujthern :parts of^i;;tHe t -iNprth Island.' 'In -additiph, . greaiter quantities'. :of Waikato u- coal were;npwbeirig Consigned to>Welling,-