IMPORTED COAL

Greymouth Evening Star, 27 January 1914, Page 5

IMPORTED COAL

HUGE SHIPMENT ARRIVING

EFFECT ON WEST COAST TRADE-

(By Telegraph —Special to the Star.)

WELLINGTON, This Day. So thoroughly did the Wellington Employers' Strike Commitee go, about its business in counteracting the Federation of Labour's plan for a coal shortage that the, plenitude, of oversea coal is°now somewhat embarrassing. % Off the Heads yesterday appeared the steamer Sverre, specially chartered to bring coal from Newcastle to the Dominion. On her arrival off the Heads, however, she wa.s to be signal led on te Lyttelton. This is the Sverre's second trip across the Tasman. Her last cargo was discharged at Wellington. Several more specially chartered coal boats are yet to arrive. The next vessel will be the Knight of the Thistle from Japan, and she is expected today. , n. • 1 Another Newcastle boat, the Twickenham, is due here this week. The manager of a large shipping concern in Wellington gave it as his opinion in conversation with a reporter that a large number of people had committed themselves during the recent industrial trouble to laying in and ordering large stocks of coal for which they now find no need. The result of this large influx of imported coat would be to flood the market, with the probable result that the West Cast mines (which are the sources of most of the Dominion's c<.al supply) wilt be forced to work shorter hours for tho next few weeks.