CEMENT SHORTAGE
DUE TO INSUFFICIENT COAL SUPPLIES. Press Association. DUNEDIN. December 16. In common with other parts of the Dominion Dunedin is also suffering from a shortage of cement. The manager 'of- th& 'Milburn Lime ail.d Cement Company; in-discussing the shortage, put his finger on what appeared to ,be tho real reason for the shortage when he said it was duo to the local manufacturers' inability to obtain- sufficient supplies of bitumijious coal for burning the. cement clinkers. The New. .^"ZealajA,„.,,.eminent mills now operating have plants that are capable of producing from 16,000 to 20,000 tons per month, and the deman.d throughout the .. Dominion is about 8500 tons per . month. Owing chiefly to the coal shortage the coment mills* have only been able to supply 700 tons per month since June last, and the accumulated shortage hag now made tho position serious"."
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New Zealand Times, Volume XLV, Issue 10464, 17 December 1919, Page 6
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142CEMENT SHORTAGE New Zealand Times, Volume XLV, Issue 10464, 17 December 1919, Page 6
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