6 SEPTEMBER 1930, Page 3

The Coal Industry in 1929

The review by the Secretary for Mines of the Coal Industry in 1929 shows an improvement of 2ok million tons production over 1928. About half this increase, moreover, was in exports, a particularly encouraging fact. Unfortunately, since 1929 there have been signs of a decline, hardly avoidable in the present industrial stagnation ; but there is ground for hope that, with the reorganization now in hand Great Britain will again be able to take her fair share in any increase of the world's

coal consumption. * * * *