GOVERNMENT'S ACTION DEFENDED.
STATEMENT BY SIR J. G. WARD. CHRISTCHURCH, January 9. During the course of a conysrsation with a Truth representative this morning hi reference to the mining trouble, Hir Joseph Ward said that he had just received a telegram stating that the miners had agreed to the proposals of the Government as contained in his telegram to Mr Semple, but the mine-owners had not yet communicated their concurrence. Sir Joseph expressed the opinion that the action of the Government was justifiable on the ground that if the matter had not been arranged and if things had gone on in the same unsatisfactory state as they have been in for some time past, almost* every other industry in- ithe Dominion would have been brought to a standstill in two or three weeks.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2861, 13 January 1909, Page 31
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133GOVERNMENT'S ACTION DEFENDED. Otago Witness, Issue 2861, 13 January 1909, Page 31
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