COAL SHORTAGE IN CHRISTCHURCH
(Per Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, May 18. The coat shortage which at present is troubling householders of Christchurch. is, to ai! iutonts ;,uj purposes, becoming To day a reporter visited a cumber of large coal merchants of the city, and from them received an insight into what was actually taking place. Three weeks ago, one of the largest yards in the town had in stock 4000 tons ot Australian coal. To-day there remained barely 20 tons. No lignite was to be had, and no coal from the West Coast was in sight.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXI, Issue 18785, 19 May 1923, Page 5
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95COAL SHORTAGE IN CHRISTCHURCH Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXI, Issue 18785, 19 May 1923, Page 5
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