HOPES OF SETTLEMENT
. DUNEDIN, .This Day. me manager ot a large coal company states that a meeting is to be held to-day between-the Blackball Company, and the union, and it was hoped that a settlement would be reached before long. The Westport Coal Company's mines and all the other collenes on the West Coast are idle to-day. Should the strike become general serious results are likely to accrue, he states as the Australian strike has been on so long that there is no Australian coal lrL reserve. The shortage of coal would afreet shipping, the railways, and freezing
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Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 117, 13 November 1929, Page 12
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