656 THE COLLIERY GUARDIAN September 27, 1918. CONTENTS. Editorial Articles:— Page Depreciation Allowance for Income Tax ....... 657 The Coal Shortage............................ 657 Articles :— j Recent Developments in the Coal Fields South of ! Sydney...................................... 649 , Mine Rescue Apparatus Research Committee: ! First Report ............................... 651 , Afforestation ............................... 652 ; The Chance Acetylene Safety Lamp............. 653 ■ Carbonisation Reactions ..................... 654 j South Wales Mining Timber Trade ............. 661 ■ Economising Industrial Coal in France ..... 662 ; Obituary .................................... 662 ; Mean Magnetic Declination................... 664 Coastwise Shipments in August................ 664 I The American Coal Trade .................... 664 Labour and Wages ........................... 664 The Freight Market ........................ 666 Open Contracts ............................. 666 Abstracts of Patent Specifications Recently Acptd. 668 New Patents Connected with the Coal and Iron Trades .................................... 668 Government Publications...................... 668 Publications Received ....................... 668 Reports of Meetings:— Institution of Mining Engineers ............. 661 The Coal and Iron Trades ....................655 —661 The London Coal Trade ....................... 655 The Tin-plate Trade.......................... 660 The By-Products Trade ....................... 662 Notes from the Coal Fields....................... 663 Coal, Iron and Engineering Companies............. 666 Miscellanea:— Household Coal ............................. 651 Boring for Oil in Derbyshire—The Rationing System..................................... 652 Non-Ferrous Metal Industry—Miners, Coal Owners, and Excess Profits............ ... 653 Miners' President and Secretary—Lord Aber- con way and the Coal Shortage ............. 655 House Coal Prices ......................... 658 Mineral Resources of Great Britain Liverpool Coalheavers and Committee's Award.......... 660 Order Regarding Non-Detonating Explosives... 661 Restricting Coal Supplies in Canada—The Indus- trial Reconstruction Council—Austrian Coal Production — Colliery Clerical Staffs' War Bonuses—Exhibition of “ Key'' Industries.... 662 Italy to Localise Coal Distillation -To Prevent Coal Wastage — British Metal Exports to France 664 Sir Albert Stanley on the Coal Position —“ Beama " 666 Coke Prices—The Railway Strike - Commercial Aspects of Coal Distillation............... 668 ADVERTISEMENTS. 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The *pressure for coal is intensified in London, as stocks are low. New business is very quiet on the Tyne and Wear, although neutrals make good offers for any coal at practically any date. The open market is now at the minimum. Prices are unchanged in Lancashire, and the position is steady. Great scarcity is still evident in Yorkshire, and market quotations there are prac- tically nominal. Best coals have been fairly plentiful in the stagnant market in Cardiff, but prices have not altered. No improvement in output has occurred in Scotland, and all classes of coal are scarce. Chartering has been unusually difficult. Scarcity of loading turns affected business in Newcastle and quotations were nominal, both there and in Cardiff. A railway strike dislocated a deal of mineral traffic this week, and caused stoppages at many of the collieries in South Wales. It is estimated that 120,000 miners were affected. Nearly all the London depots were crippled for supplies. The Conciliation Board for the South Wales coal trade refused an application for the establishment of an eight hours day for all surface workmen and other colliery employees not now working an eight hours shift. Sir Albert Stanley, the President of the Board of Trade, and Sir Guy Calthrop, the Coal Controller, propose to address meetings of miners to bring the serious scarcity of coal before them and to urge on them the necessity for increasing the output. One of these meetings will be held in the Cannock Chase district on Sunday morning, September 29. Addressing a conference of local authorities at the London Mansion House last Friday, the Presi- dent of the Board of Trade said it was hopeless to expect it would be possible to withdraw from the Army a sufficient number of men to meet the whole of the coal shortage. A provisional committee has beenCppointed in connection with the proposed National Federation of coal merchants’ organisations. A meeting of the Association of Mining and Electrical Engineers (Warwickshire and South Staffs Branch) will be held in the Chamber of Com- merce Buildings, Birmingham, to-morrow (Saturday), commencing at 5 p.m. The business includes dis- cussion on the president’s paper, “ Drying out of Electrical Apparatus,” and on two questions relating to the relative merits of squirrel cage and slip ring induction for mining purposes and coal economy in power houses. Mr. B. Smillie, the present president, and Mr. G. J. Hancock, M.P., secretary of the Nottingham Miners’ Association, have been nominated for the office of first permanent president of the Miners’ Federation. Sir George Armytage, Bart., acting under medical advice, has resigned his position as chairman of the Lancashire and Yorkshire Bailway Company. He is succeeded by the deputy chairman, Mr. E. B. Fielden.