AS OTHERS SEE US.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLVI, Issue XLVI, 24 January 1911, Page 5

AS OTHERS SEE US.

> YTBWS OF THE N-S. WALES ATTORNEY-GENERAL.

THE STATUS OF XEW ZEALAND

MORE IMPORTANT THAN HE THOUGHT.

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(Rec. 10.30 a.m.)

MELBOURNE. Tuesday.

Mr. Holman, Attorney - General (N.S. Wales), who has just returned from -a visit, is enthusiastic over hii New Zealand tour. He found New Zealand a much more important place than he expected. He hoped as a result of an interview with Di 3?indlay, SSJZ. Minister of Justice, to establish reciprocity regarding defaulting husbands. . .

-:"The people of New Zealand have .deliberately broken rings' and' .trade - com(braatidn« ; State enterprise^'. 1 remarked Mr Beeby, New South. Wales Ministor of Labour, to a Sydney 'interviewer. •'!The development of the State coal •tmne aimed solely at breaking the coin'Wnation which had unnaturally; forced »» the price of coal to. the consumer. The opening up of the State mine had *he effect of considerably reducing the price of r coal. Notwithstanding. - howeyerj. the salutary effect, of this change, firices are still abnormally high on ac*ount of the heavy freights _ that aro I»id to local shippers, who evidently fcase working in combination. An agitia■tion is already. on foot to meet this combination by State colliers. In ao*brdance with the general policv of the it seems pretty certain that, this •new field of State enterprise will be •ritered into, and its effect undoubtedly •will be to «till further reduce the cost "■of coal to the consumer. The labour *>o6t of production is much the same as iii! our own State, and ; the fact that in *bite of this coal is. sold at about 30s •a. ton is evidence of the effect of the shipping conrbination."