THE PRICE OF COAL.
Sir,—With reference to the complaint of your correspondent signing himself v Over-charged" on the above subject-, I may inform him so far that there is a Coalmine Owners' Association here, which dictates the price to tiio trade, so much so (hat any coal merchant, selling the Nightcaps coal is charged 2s per ton extra for all coals mined by the Mine-owners' Association, and the merchants, with one exception, accept tlwt dictation. In America now such a boycott would be punishable by law. Personally, I had to leave my coal merchant, with whom I had been a good customer for many years, as he was intimidated by the 2s extra for other coals.—l am, etc., Dunedin, July 17. Coxsmnili.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 14579, 19 July 1909, Page 6
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122THE PRICE OF COAL. Otago Daily Times, Issue 14579, 19 July 1909, Page 6
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