MINERS FOR NEW ZEALAND.
A MINISTERIAL EXPLANATION.
WELLINGTON. May 7. Regarding the cablegram from Sydney stating that a cable message has been received from New' Zealand asking for gold miners and coal miners, owing to a shortage in the dominion, the Minister of Mines made the ' following statement to-day: "The Government, hearing through the local press of the closing of certain copper mines in Australia, owing to the fall in the price of copper and consequent unemployment, so much so that the town of Cobar was threatened with extinction, despatched a cablegram the Premier of Noiv South Wales saying that work /was available in New Zealand for a considerable number of both gold and coal miners, as jeveral of the quartz mines are very short-handed Indeed, and the Government contemplates opening up an extensive new coal mine at Nine-mile, near Point Elizabeth, in which (and also in the present Liverpool mine) a large number of men could be employed."
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Otago Witness, Issue 3400, 14 May 1919, Page 26
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159MINERS FOR NEW ZEALAND. Otago Witness, Issue 3400, 14 May 1919, Page 26
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