COAL PRODUCTION

Otago Daily Times, Issue 25239, 31 May 1943, Page 3

COAL PRODUCTION

POSITION IN BRITAIN RUGBY, May 28. " The nation must be prepared in the forthcoming autumn and winter to face a serious decline in coal production,” states the latest report by the Parliamentary Select Committee on National Expenditure. This conclusion, it states, is inescapable in the absence of new conditions, such as the further release of miners from the services. Giving a warning that the position will become still more unfavourable if and when the additional demands for coal shipments abioad have to be met, the committee recommends, first, that new experiments be tried to diminish delays in dealing - with avoidable absenteeism: secondly, that efforts be made to accelerate production and delivery of machinery urgently required for further mechanisation: thirdly, that investigations be continued to achieve further fuel economies by some industrial users; fourthly, that the fuel economy campaign, domestic and industrial, be continued; and, fifthly, that the public be advised on the order of priorities of economies in fuel.