COAL FROM NEWCASTLE.
200,000 TONS IN THREE MONTHS. (Peb United Pbbss Association.] WELLINGTON, November 13 The Minister of Alines (the Hon. G. J. Anderson) supplies interesting figures relating to importations of coal from Newcastle owing to the stoppage of work in the West Coast mines. He states that the dominion’s needs could be met by our own collieries to the extent of at least 60 per cent., but as the result of the stoppage referred to Newcastle is now supplying practically the whole. Nearly 200,000 tons have arrived in New Zealand from Newcastle in the last three months, as follows: —August, 31,054; September, 50,976; October, 73,667; —total, 192,697 tons.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 19020, 16 November 1923, Page 4
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109COAL FROM NEWCASTLE. Otago Daily Times, Issue 19020, 16 November 1923, Page 4
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