COAL INDUSTRY.
AUG RATI ON OF MINERS. POSITION IN NEW ZEALAND. (by TELEGRAPH. PRESS ASSOCIATION.) WELLINGTON, Alay 15. The board of inquiry into the use of New Zealand coal in locomotives and engines oil the New Zealand railways heard evidence here to-day. H. D. Thomson, Under-Secretary for Immigration, said that since 1922 no special inducement had been made to bring minors to New Zealand. In 1929.93' 397 miners came here; in 192324, 277; in 1924-25, 269 ; a total of 943. There has been no special requisition for miners by the companies. The arrival of miners is now dropping off. About- two years ago he was advised that he had* better tell the miners intending to come here tha-t they might not; he fully employed, as miners were then working short time. In 1919 the Imperial Governmeint proposed that New Zealand should take 500 Cornish miners, hut- this offer was turned down.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 15 May 1925, Page 7
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151COAL INDUSTRY. Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 15 May 1925, Page 7
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