BRITISH COAL
OUTPUT INCREASED MORE MINERS EMPLOYED. FACTORS IN IMPROVEMENT. (British Official Wii’eless.) RUGBY, Feb. 21. British coal oxxtput during January was nearly 3,000,000 tons more than duriixg the previous month. The weekly quantities produced have steadily grown in all English mining areas, and the number of miners employed in Britain has increased to 911,000. General improvement in British industry is one contributing factor to the increased home demand for coal, while the coal export trade has benefited from the fact that numbers of contracts which British . customers abroad were forced to conclude with foi’eign producers at the time of the British coal strike are now expiring, and these customers are I’everting to British coal, which is more sixitable for their pxvi-pose.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 23 February 1929, Page 5
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122BRITISH COAL Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 23 February 1929, Page 5
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