TELEGRAMS.

Feilding Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 4593, 19 May 1922, Page 3

TELEGRAMS.

INDUSTRIAL HARMONY. o?er Prtss Association.) Auckland, May 18. In his remarks at tho annual meeting of the Taupiri Coal Mines, Ltd., yesterday, the chairman of directors (the Hon. E. W. Alison) made some commonts on the subject of industrial harmony, particularly as it related to coal-mine workers in New Zealand. "Tho wages of the worker," ho said, "must bo maintained at as high a level as possible, and tho conditions under which ho works mado as favourable as possible. But he must work industriously; working leisurely and restricting the output must prove disastrous to employer and worker alike. In previous years it was the policy of tho Government to use mainly New Zealand coal in the railway servico. This company, since its formation, has had a contract to supply tho Railway Department witb large quantities of Taupiri coal, but owing to the enormous stocks of imported coal now held by that Department, it has ceased to take coal from this and other mining companies, with the direct result that since the beginning of this year tho company has had to work short time. The 'go-slow' policy of tho miners has therefore reacted upon themselves, and must continue to do so." GOAL SEAM DISCOVERED. AVeilington, May 18. Tho Mining Department states that a diamond drill which-has been working on Dobson's Flat, 1 an endowment of the Greymouth Harbour Board, struck a seam of £oal ten feet thick at a depth of 822 feet.