NO ITALIANS IN STATE MINES
PLACES NOW FILLED BY OTHER MEN CFrom Our Parliamentary Reporter.l WELLINGTON, June 20. No Italians are now working in State mines on the West Coast. This statement was made in an interview ' to-day by the Minister for Mines (the Hon. P. C. Webb), who said that the positions of Italians who had been. working there had now bepn filled. - “Many of the Italians who were working in State mines had...*’ been there for many years,” Mr Webb said, “and they are excellent citizens; but on account of Italy’s participation in the war they have been taken from the mines. A' large number of them have been liv*mg on the West Coast for many years, and some have married New Zealand girls. On their country being involved m war with the Allies, however, it • was felt by the miners that in the in* terests of general safety Italians should not be. employed in or about the mines.’* Very few Italians were working in °“® than State mines, the Minister added; but none was now employed ' ln State mines, and the places of thosa who had been working there had been filled.
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Press, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23052, 21 June 1940, Page 8
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