GREAT COALFIELD

Southland Times, Issue 19345, 10 September 1924, Page 5

GREAT COALFIELD

DISCOVERED IN BRITAIN. ENORMOUS SUPPLIES ASSURED. By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright.) Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) LONDON, September 8. (Received September 9, 8.0 p.m.) Engineers have discovered a new coal field in South-east Yorkshire. Sinkings struck a continuation of the famous Barnsley seam, which is the richest in England, eight im.es eastward of the supposed limit. The new seam is five feet thick and it is believed, extends eastwards to Poole and then 65 miles under the North Sea. It is estimated to contain 2,300,000,000 tons of coal, sufficient for 400 years. THE COAL BRIDGE. 'There is a great bridge over which all our people have to pass, to get to work,’’ says Sir L. Chiozza Money, in the London Daily News. “That bridge is coal. British wealth, it is often said, is built on coal, but that is an imperfect expression. The truth is that British wealth is built on cheap coal. Who will reconstruct the coal bridge? Who has power, eloquence, light, leading, to call a Truce of God; to beg all the agents concerned to come to council of peace and common sense before it is too late? We cannot continue to maintain our great population without the maintenance of coal-based exports. Such exports find their origin in cheap power. Cheap power cannot be arrived at without a scientific organisation of coal-getting and coal employment. This is no question of any particular Sam,* It matters not who does it; it matters everything that it should be done. The fabric of British export trade, once destroyed, can never be rebuilt.