COAL MINING CONFERENCE.
(BI TELEGRAPH.—SI'ECIAT, COKBESPOSnBSIT.) Duncdin, August-4.-The conference between the Now Zealand Coal'and Oil Company and the Knitaugata miners was held to-day. ' Practically a "settlement was arrived at, "and the case will not go to Court. The clauses relating to tonnage,,rates, trucking, and weighing,.wore the ones that caused most discussion. It
was agreed to work under the' old tonnago rate of 2s. per ton for sliovel-lilled coal, and that agreement practically settles the trucking as well as the weighing clause, and sovoral points iii connection with the trucking were held in abeyance ill "the'meantime.'"Ft is tho intention of tho ni.mago_me.nt to carry out some experiments in working the trucking, and until they are completed and prosed tho old conditions will prevail.
Perhaps she's on tho railway! ' Perhaps she's'on the sea! Perhaps she'll go To Jericho, _ / Perhaps she will! Perhaps she won't, ' • Hut it she does or if she don't,'" I'm glnd that I presented to her A bottle of Woods' Great Peppermint Cure.
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 2631, 5 August 1908, Page 2
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164COAL MINING CONFERENCE. Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 2631, 5 August 1908, Page 2
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