STATE COAL MINES.
THE PREMIER’S LATEST FAD.
By Telegraph—Press Association.
Wellington, last night. In tho House of Representatives this evening, Mr Seddon, in moving the second reading of the State Coal Mines Bill, said that after the Government had met tho State requirements they would establish 1 State c-oai depots in the principal centres where private consumers could make their purchases. It was not the present intention of the Government to have its own steamers to carry coal. That would only he resorted to as an extreme step. At the present time the profit of 7s 6d per ton was being made out of the Government, and he considers it morally impossible for ' the Government to make a loss on State mines,
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Gisborne Times, Volume VI, Issue 245, 24 October 1901, Page 2
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