YOUNG MAN’S BIG JOB

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 17956, 7 December 1932, Page 5

YOUNG MAN’S BIG JOB

“SIX MONTHS” PLAN * * ; i. y--t — BRITAIN’S LOST COAL MARKETS -T- _ . ft . LONDON.' Oct. 20. j A young man of 28 lias been chosen ftom among more than a hundred older candidates for the job of putting the British goal industry on .its feel. The post is that of director of the i Coal Utilisation Couiicil, a new body iiipVdsentiug the leading British coal iVithbestSi. ' in ••• mi *-ot•*••••• *rTl(o'young iinani is llr. W. H. Gordon. . eitergtotic and cheerful. fie is eomihnawed by the: fact that the retort to prosperity of 1,803.030 miners amLIiCS coal traders’ is resting jtiw his ability to. sol! 23.003.000 tons of British coal:a year. ■ Mr. Gonlon has never worked in the coal industry. Ho recently left the \Navy., jin which he studied marine engineering. ;*• ••■-.. • • •■ i • . ■ v>,‘l, musti lellnyou all about my newest fob-.iip five .nimates,” Mr. Gordon said to a .press representative.. <“I edit two coil trade magazines which must go to f«-es9 to-day, and have no time to spnrfci.i •• H ! I--“The facts are these. Thin coal trade isHh ,-ao very.-bad- state. .There is (one big reason! for this—-nobody knows how to sell coal properly. ■ ■ • 7 -.‘.'The tattling coal interests in- Great Britain(htherefore, ‘recently got together and formed the' Unak Utilisation GOllll- - ,'iNaw ; they have placed me in charge dt -the .council. .otifiyj first dusk-will he to direct the activities of .25 investigators who; during tbA -iiext six months,-are going to America .and countries -in Europe to report on coal Conditions. » if’They. will dirid out what the coal consumer'. abroad. wants most. Tlicy will go. to. the distributors artd analyse methods of distribution, and finally they will icbllcct.(opinions from rhino-owners. . “When we have found all this out—in iafemt .six months—the British coal Aidiisttyjwil! get the. read kick it-needs. We shall then, have the knowledge WC. 4 S»ar.y to ‘put over’ British coal to tli6 *faole: jtorld.i »Mm- I ■ feel pretty ' confident that 7 s.balLfco-iihln to si-ll 23,000.000 tons-of Bittyish to the world, and give Ihe industry the ‘come-back’ it wants.”