STOCKS LOW AT GASWORKS
NO WINTER RESERVE , ■ Instead of the usual practice of , accumulating 30,000 tons of coai at this time of the year as a reserve for winter months, the City Gasworks has only enough stocks at present to last for five days. The closing down of the Birchwood mine because iof an explosion has stopped another source of supply, though urgent representations by the Gas Committee of the City Council to the Coal Controller in Wellington have resulted in the release of a quantity of coal from the West Coast, mines to enable the gasworks to remain open. The chairman of the committee (Or J. McCrae) said to-day that the problem of obtaining stocks just now was an urgent one, but the position would clearly be infinitely more embarrassing during the winter.
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Evening Star, Issue 25084, 27 January 1944, Page 4
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134STOCKS LOW AT GASWORKS Evening Star, Issue 25084, 27 January 1944, Page 4
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