WEST COAST MINERS

Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 290, 7 September 1928, Page 19

WEST COAST MINERS

DEPUTATION TO PRIME MINISTER. Mailers affecting I lie welfare of miners were discussed with the Prime Minister (Right Hou. J. G. Coates) yesterday by a deputation representing the West Coast medical associations and the State Miners’ Union. Replying to the representations, the Prime Minister promised to go into the question of sick funds to see if the Government could not work out some satisfactory scheme. The problem of the Ngakawa leases was a difficult one for those who had built homes, and he would see what could be done to cleat the position up. In regard to unemployment, Mr. Coates said the difficulty was that the Public Works Department had quite a lot of its own men who were finishing, and did not want Io let them down, as many of them had been with the Department for twenty years or more. They had more public works men than they knew what to do with. He had been making investigations with a view to mapping out work for miners, but he was not in a position to sav anything definite yet