THE COAL SUPPLY

Evening Star, Issue 17086, 3 July 1919, Page 4

THE COAL SUPPLY

NEW PITS-YIELDING SOME ■•'coal, shag point lost a week's WORK. The shortage of ooal In Ofcago is causing activity in quarters seldom before heard of as coal supplier*. Some Wairio coal has come to Dunedin j it is said to be vary like Kaitaagata coal. . ' A fair quantity of brown lignite has also found its way to town from Alexandra and Bannookburn. The Slteg Point mine, the normal yield of which is from 100 to 150 tons per day, was out of action last week; not because of any trouble with the minora, but because the mile or so of road over which the coal has to bo carted to the railway was impassable, it having cut up badly in the wet weather. Operations at the mine have been resumed now, but tihe week's output is lost, and that means a lot when every industry is crying out for coal The company are pushing on with the completion of the extra length of railway siding which will take the' rails up to the mine, and if no obstacle crops up thJA extra length of siding should foe completed by the end of the month. The Green Island, supplies to Dunedin are going on as usual, though the output is not eo great as before the strike.