MINING AGREEMENTS.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 20450, 3 July 1928, Page 13

MINING AGREEMENTS.

NEGOTIATIONS IN PROGRESS. HOPES OF A SETTLEMENT. (Special to Daily Times.) WELLINGTON, July 2. Conferences are still proceeding with the object of securing fresh agreements with the coal miners. The position was explained by the secretary, qf the New Zealand Employers’ Federation (Mr T. O. Bishop) to-day. “ The agreements under which coal mining operations are carried on in each of the mining districts of New Zealand expired at the end of April,” said Mr Bishop. “ Conferences between representatives of the Coal Mine Owners’ Association and the miners’ district oroganisations for the purpose of framing new agreements have been held at Westport and at Auckland. A conference has still to be arranged to consider an agreement for the Southland mines. The conferences at Westport and at Auckland reached agreements on many points, but there are one or two matters in the mine owners’ final proposals to which some exception has been taken by the unions. I am of the opinion that the position is more a matter of misunderstanding than anything else, and that an ■amicable settlement will shortly be arrived at.”