COMPULSORY COAL ZONING

Evening Post, Volume CXXXVIII, Issue 23, 27 July 1944, Page 4

COMPULSORY COAL ZONING

Sir,—ln the Hutt Valley coal is zoned. The Government denies this, but permits the whole of the coal merchants to combine and arrange mutuallly their own district, into which no other merchant will venture. The result is that many customers are victims to a system of delivery which leaves them at the mercy of one merchant because the coal control blandly shuts one eye to the needs of the customer -In the winter months for two years it has been extremely difficult to obtain conl at all; that is to say. sufficient coal. Bui these lust few months the consumer must pay fnr his fuel on ordcrint!. await anything from two to six weeks for delivery, i-hpi-i vcpfivp sonicthint; us coal which

-"snt in r-nspc of malnutrition and is not only unburnable, but will in an* hour's time put a good fire to shame and out! Yet the customer has to take it or go without, tvith the result he goes without and puts the radiator into commission, Avhen already great pressure is put on electricity consumers to be easy on this latter. If our sons aro fightin.n for liberty j then included is the liberty lo gel coal ior to any merchant he chooses.—l 1 am, etc., |