BRITAIN’S COAL OUTPUT
HIGHEST IN SEVES YEARS.. The output-of British last ye'ar, at 241,00'0,000 ; tpus, was the .highest since 1930. ... -According to the Board;, pf Trade the-/.output .in:... J93.Q was 243,000;0.00. ... . Output of saleable coal in . the last, quarter of 1937 .amounted to '62,700,000 tons., or nearly 3,000,iflOQ;: .tons more than in the last quarter'of 1936, and higher than, in'any quarter since March, 1930. I ; '.!'. .’r ' . . ■ . Shipments abroad'"totalled ‘ nearly 14,500,000 tons, or”l,OOH,000’ tbilst mote than a year earlier. ' ‘ Employment increased 1 during the quarter by 31,200, and working time rose by 2| days: on the average to a better level ' -than in any December quarter since 1923.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 19 April 1938, Page 8
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