PRICE OF COAL
AUCKLAND INCREASES j - | LONG WAR ENDED I (Per Press Association.) AUCKLAND, this day. An increase in the ratio of 5s a ton in the retail price of coal in Auckland was decided upon at a meeting of the Auckland Retail Dealers’ Association, to cover a similar rise in the cost to dealers at depots. The action is in consequence of the truce now reached between the five companies producing Waikato coal, which has, to a certain extent, ended the North Island coal “war” of the past two years, and increased from between 30 and 40 I per cent, the prices at the mine, j The new retail rates are as under, those ruling previously being given in 1 parentheses: Household coal, per ton, 48s (41s) { half-ton, 2% (21s 6d); quarter, 12s 6d (11s'3d); sacks, 4s 3d (4s); ■kitchen coal, per ton, 44s (395); halfton, 23s (20s 6d) ; quarter, Us 9d (10s 9d); sacks, 4s (3s 9d).
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18386, 2 May 1934, Page 5
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159PRICE OF COAL Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18386, 2 May 1934, Page 5
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