NEW ZEALAND COAL.
;• DEMAND INCREASING. ; LARGE EXPORT TRADE. (Special to Dailt Times.) 5 " AUCKLAND, May 6. The output of coal in the Dominion hag <1928 constituted a record. That record? hha again been broken by the production/during 1929, the; output for last, year being 99,111 tons more than the quantity produced in . any previous year. "This gratifying result," said the. Ministeft of Mines (Mr W. A. Veitch) to-day, is/attributable to several causes, the
most Krofiter ,'use by instead tion of gas-making pur-> poses, (Experiments-in- the of different classes of New Zealand coal have shown that results from suitable mixtures are equal to those, obtainable from imThbse in charge ofv.g&s" arqito be(j,complimented, om sense they.-Jh&ve' displayed; in-' us»pg the locally-produced article and for the.iissistarife they halelthus given to thfe; thipirig in<pffiry. I bfflteve tbfs is cotup Anrfes will Zealand*, coalr The comparative figures for 1929 and 1928' {jjthe latter in parentheses) are: Output, 2.635,864 tons (2,436,753); persom empJoyed, 5497 (5376)j imports. 215,656 (247,861); exports. 205,403 (125.771), ■
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 21019, 7 May 1930, Page 18
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