MINING PROBLEMS
NEW MEMBER’S QUESTIONS COMMISSION WANTED (Parliamentary Reporter.). WELLINGTON, this day. Firm in his intention to make mining problems a feature of his Parliamentary work, tlie new Labor member for Buller, Mr. B. C. Webb, who was formally sworn in yesterday afternoon, tabled two questions oil the subject. He fired an urgent inquiry to the Prime Minister, the Rt. Hon. G. W. Forbes, which, however, produced the most stereotyped of departmental answers.
Mr. Webb is asking that a Royal Commission he appointed to investigate and report upon “the deplorable state of the coal-mining industry in New Zealand,” and that disputes in the State mines lie referred to a tribunal with an independent chairman.
The Prime Minister was also asked by Mr. Webb whether, in the appointment of a successor to the Under-Secretary of Mines, lie would choose someone with a knowledge of the mining industry. Mr. F. W. Schramm (Lab., Auckland lb): They will appoint a butcher. Mr. Forbes replied : “The appointment is one that will be made by the Public Service Commissioner in accordance with the provisions of the Public Service Act.”
“Very illuminating,” commented Mr ,T. O’Brien (Lab., Westland).
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18264, 6 December 1933, Page 7
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