THE COAL MINERS QUESTION
a ■ DEFINITION OF "TRANSPORT." The conference between the Coalminers' Federation and the coal-mine owners meets'to-day. Mr. E. Semple. one of tho heads of the Coalminers' Federation, informed a Dominion reporter yesterday that the only question to go before tie conference related to the export of coal to Australia while the strike there continues. No other question would be raised. Mr. Semple's attention was drawn to the fact that the New Zealand Government asked for an exception in favour of coal for transports. His reply was: "We don't object to a troopship or a hospital ship, but that word 'transport' must be defined." This should present no difficulties. •It las never been the practice in New Zealand to use the term as applying to any ships except those carrying troops.. Presumably the wish of" the Miners' Federation is to exclude from tie exception such ships as may be carrying a few troops, but which may be in their ordinary trades as cargo and passenger liners. New Zealand has not had to send troops forward iii large numbers under arrangements of this kind hitherto.
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Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2941, 29 November 1916, Page 7
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186THE COAL MINERS QUESTION Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2941, 29 November 1916, Page 7
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