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TABLE VI. 



Coal Resources of Afric.v. 



(In million tons.) 



Large unestimated reserves remain in Southern Nigeria, a 

 moderate amount in Nyasaland, and small reserves in Madagas- 

 car, East African Protectorate, Sudan, and A])vssinia. 



Referring to the estimate of coal reserves, Professor Bone 

 says : " It is, therefore, not difficult to foresee where, in the not 

 far-distant future, when Europe's coal supplies approach exhaus- 

 tion, the world's chief centre of manufacturing industry will be 

 located. 



'■ The relative insignificance of Great F>ritain"s coal reserves 

 is a fact of which our commercial and ruling classes seem to be 

 profoundly ignorant, otherwise effective measures would have 

 been taken long ago to check the criminal wastefulness of all 

 classes of the community using coal. 



" It must be our business," he continues, " not only to make 

 these facts universally known, but to insist on the Government 

 taking immediate effective action in the direction of establish- 

 ing some systematic supervision and control of fuel consumption 

 in all large industrial areas, and of furthering scientific investi- 

 gations on a large scale upon the better utilisation of coal." 



The output of coal for the world is given for 1913 as 

 1,363,878,110 tons. In 1903 it was only 800,000.000 tons, .so 

 that it is increasing at a somewhat alarming rate. The figures 



