THE COAL CRISIS.

Auckland Star, Volume LVI, Issue 192, 15 August 1925, Page 9

THE COAL CRISIS.

COMMISSION OF [INQUIRY.

CHOICE OF PERSONNEL.

NO OWNERS OR MINERS.

(By Cable.—Press Association.—Copyright.)

(Received 11.30 a.m.) LONDON, August 14. The political correspondent of the "Daily Chronicle" states that Cabinet has decided that none directly interested in the mining industry, whether miner or owner, shall serve on the Commission of Inquiry.

Cabinet considered a preliminary list of names, but the final choice has been left to Mr. Baldwin, the Prime Minister. .

There will probably be only five or seven commissioners, the chief consideration being a defeire to avoid what happened in the case of the Sankey Commission, when there were five separate reports.

The terms of referece, contained in thirty words, are loose enough to permit of the widest possible Inquiry, inoluding nationalisation, distribution and sale of by-products, as well as the effect of the price of steel on other industries. — (A. and N.Z. Cable.) MR. BALDWIN'S ATTITUDE. MINERS NOT PLEASED. (Received 2 p.m.) LONDON, August 14.

Mr. Baldwin told a miners' deputation that the Coal Commission must be a small impartial body. The deputation was dissatisfied, but the miners will attend 1 the inquiry.— (Reuter.)