COAL FAMINE THREATENED
ANOTHER CONFERENCE DEMANDED,
(Pkb United Press Association .J WELLINGTON, January 5. The situation with regard to the coal industry was unchanged during tile holidays, but it is reported that the miners ace threatening now to reduce the output further. Mr M'issey has been in communication with both the miners and the owners. The miners demand another conference, an.l the owners, it is understood, consider such a confcrenco unnecessary, in view of the full yjid open discussion which took place last year, but they are •willing to meet the miners' delegates again on certain conditions. One is the prior resumption of normal working methods. If the dispute is not settled in the near future the people of New Zealand are likely to suffer a, very acute shortage of coal next winter. Accumulation of stocks under present conditions' is scarcely possible, and most of the large consumers of coal are living from hand to mouth at the present time.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 17825, 6 January 1920, Page 2
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