British Coal Trade
The Wages Subvention COST TO THE COUNTRY. THE ONLY WAY. (By Cable—Press Association—Copyright,) (Received 11, 1.15 p.m.) London, Dec. 10. oi 1 House of Commons Mr, yhurchill, speaking on tne supptemen. tary vote of £9,000,000 for subvention in aid of the coal trade wages, said he thought the cost to the country would be between £20,000,000 and £21,000000 ior nine months. If the best hope’s were realised the gap between the cost oi production and export prices would disappear when the subvention ended. Was it too much to hope, asked the Chancellor, that the parties would get together and grapple with the problem so that the trade would regain its old independent position. But for subvention we would be standing amid j Uins Ollr prosperity.—(A. and
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XV, Issue 216, 11 December 1925, Page 5
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