THE COAL TRADE
The following telegrams have passed between Mi- William Ha-ndyside (manaevr of the Nightcaps Coal Company) and the Hon. 'G. W. Russell :
At your meeting with the coal merchants at Christ-church on Saturday you said that the people the State had'intended_ hitting were the owners of the coal mines. Our company wish to know what justification you "have for this Rwecping_statement,' seeing that during the last 35 years we have, supplied the Southland public at fair market rates, fluctuating not more than 2s per ton,' and that without any State comoetition' —William Haxdvs'ide.
idy reference at Christchureh was not to individual coal companies like yours which are local in character, but to those companies whose operations control prices throughout the Dominion. lam pleased to know that your company have conducted their operations 'so * fairly throughout their long existence. T v'«h you continued success. If other districts were served equally well the need for State coal mines to' steady prices would not have existed.—G. W. Russell
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Evening Star, Issue 16224, 20 September 1916, Page 2
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167THE COAL TRADE Evening Star, Issue 16224, 20 September 1916, Page 2
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