NATIONAL POOL

Auckland Star, Volume LII, Issue 101, 29 April 1921, Page 2

NATIONAL POOL

STILL DEMANDED BY MINERS., A STUMBLING BLOCK. ;Bj Cable.—l'ress Association.—Copyright.) (Received 9.30 a.m.) LONDON, April 28. j S'mie critics of the Government surest j that a larger Government subsidy might meet the difficulty, but the conference resolution makes it plain that tiie stumbling block to settlement is still t;ie miner.-' claim for a national pool. | Several of the smaller districts pleaded j • that their nir-mbera were entitled to have i a voice in hottling- whether the Govern- ; ir.- 'lit cfTpr was adequate. The delegates [ fronj Scotland, Lancashire, Yorkshire and , South Wales, howovor, replied that the j dflopratps had beon given a mandate for j a national settlement, from which they : must no tdepart. The delegates will now report to their which will pass, resolutions aflirming or not affirming the ; conference's action. .\ member of the executive goiner Xorth Ka.id: "We will bo. invited to return to London in ten days or a fortnight, when the public begins to understand that no coal is bein? nroduepd."—i A. and X.Z.)