STATE COAL DEPARTMENT.

Press, Volume LXV, Issue 19683, 29 July 1929, Page 11

STATE COAL DEPARTMENT.

j TO IHE e: V .7. OF " • £ '"■ J Sir.—Would j .mi pfc-a.«r ur!ow T ' J protest as a citizen and a ratepav-r against the suggestion made in J out report on Saturday Marring tL.it officers of the State C'oa! Depai anent could or would give- h?ht weight. I .shomd be verv .sorry ir.det-d to ste tue retail branch of the Department away with. Tlie very tact luat merchant suggests that we cornd gee ! -"'.v; for on>' toil makes me wonaer : what kind of a deal we would get from a trader capable or making tliat suggestion. „ . . Only last evening whx-n a lricnu was the coal shortage 1 maoe reference to the State merit for two reasons —(1.) the reliaoiiitv of tho class of coal you were getting, (-2) also the assured weight, to say nothing of the price. l-.veryone knows what happens to price in utne of shortage with the private trader. I should he glad if you would allow mi' the spaco to go a little further, and sav xhat if the men concerned read this accusation, no doubt the\ v ill, it must come as a blow, for they arc each and ail servants and telloweitizens of ours, wishing and trying to obtain an honest livelihood and notgiving short weight and maladmiriistering that which belongs to everyone. The only other way this could be handled fairly and properly would bs bj' industrial co-operation.—Yours, €U "' T. E. PEARCE. July 27th, 1929. [We refer to this letter in our leader columns.-—Ed. The Pittas.'