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CEMENT SHORTAGE.

EFFECT OF GO-SLOW POLICY. ERECTION OF SCHOOL BUILDINGS RETARDED. CPaoM Our Own Correspondent.) WELLINGTON. January 19. The Minister of Public Works states that he has succeeded in buying 1000 tons of foreign cement, and under ordinary circumstances with local supplies there should bo sufficient, available for public works for the next five months. If, however, the coal mines decide to go slow again a further shortage will be the result. The Minister of Education states that his department has had the greatest difficulty in getting supplies for school buildings. Two contracts aggregating £30,000 for schools in the Wellington district have been hung up for six months for want of cement, and if the go-slow policy in the mines is to bo renewed a further handicap will be placed upon tlm school buildings. Mr Parr states that the Board of Trade has done all it can to help him, but, it may become a question whether some preference should not be given to his department so that the sick who have to go to the hospitals and the children who have to go to the public schools should not suffer.

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Otago Witness, Issue 3489, 25 January 1921, Page 44

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CEMENT SHORTAGE. Otago Witness, Issue 3489, 25 January 1921, Page 44

CEMENT SHORTAGE. Otago Witness, Issue 3489, 25 January 1921, Page 44

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