RAILWAY COAL IMPORTS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 10362, 7 September 1922, Page 3

RAILWAY COAL IMPORTS.

! A hundred Kaitangata coal miners j are out of work, stated Mr Edie in the House; when urging the Minister of Railways to give this, mine jsome share of railway coal orders so as to keep'the'men ' inemployment. The Hon. I). H. Guthrie replied that every mine got its share of orders,, and some had been, .recently distributed, but there was still some portion of imported contracts to arrive. The Government was obliged to send orders overseas, as it had no guarantee of New Zealand supplies, and industries as well as the railways were being strangled;