GAS COAL RUN OUT

Grey River Argus, 20 December 1920, Page 3

GAS COAL RUN OUT

TRUCK SHORTAGE THE CAtT^

[ CHRISTCHURCH, December IS. The Stock of coal for gas purposes is noAv so loav here that there is a danger of the gas supply of the city being affected before the holidays are over. The Gas Company has less than a week's? supply of coal. Some 600 tons of coal from t^e ptcamcr Kahika haA'e becv; held. up, mcin_r to a shortage nf railway trucks flint t^n Compfinv has boon raying on fibt^'nino; p posi+ion of -the Nowca!: fl c p««1 t 0 y.(\ hronn-lit to LyHolfon in tlie -I'lippio. lint rnvinsr +o a ficlf ,T ' of V^° vpppoi. tVipm ie -no p 1 i"-n«o nf her arrival until after the holidays.