COAL STOCKS
GREATEST ON RECORD. (United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph—Copyright). LONDON, December 5. The “Daily Telegraph” says:—Dcjpite three months of intensive enemy air raids and also the German attacks on our coastal shipping, and our difficulties of transport as the result of the}-black-out, Britain’s stocks of coal are} 30 per cent., or nine million tons, high-* er than those at the same time lasi? year, and indeed are her argest ever*; Experts are. of opinion that the acute coal shortage'of last winter will he avoided. Measures being carried out in* elude the cosstruction of special unloading sidings around London, also provision of five hundred Government dumps throughout the country holding fire million tons. There are 180 dumps in Loin don.
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Hokitika Guardian, 7 December 1940, Page 5
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