AUCKLAND'S PLIGHT.
FAILING OOAL--SUPPL?, By Telegraph.—Press Association. Auckland, list Night. ( "We have received no new* of ooal coiping forward,! or of a likelihood of any addition to our nearly u&auited stock in time to avert a stoppage of the tramway service," said the. Mayor this morning, in speaking of th» situation as it is to-day. (Stocks are now held in tadh «**U quantities that the public services committee will announce to-morrow the definite time to which the tram service may be maintained. "So fa* M tko city electricity sitation is concerned," said Mr. Gunson, "there is enough coal in hand to serve for another ten 4»y» from now. Wo htfve, however, received. no further advice from Newcastle, and it is impossible to say when the first «hip> ment of overseas coal for the contivU will come to hand."
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Taranaki Daily News, 24 September 1920, Page 4
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