GOAL MING.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 12569, 5 March 1919, Page 6

GOAL MING.

FOR FIT SOLDIERS. The District Repatriation officer has been circularising various employers, as wo!! as Government Departments, with a viowv to determining to what extent it is possible to provide employment for returned soldiers, both lit and incapacitated. There has been a difficulty regarding tho latter class of .soldier, owing frequently to tho fact that the soldiers’ disabilities have been of such a nature as to prevent his taking up available employment. Regarding the lit soldiers who are now returning, there is a good prospect of suitable •work, being found for them. At to-night’s meeting of the Repatriation Board there will come up for discussion a proposal made by Air T. Fairball; of Westport, Inspector of Factories. which has for its object the semiring of lit soldiers to work in mines. •Mr Fairball claims that in the districts of Seddonville and Alokihiuui there is an opening for parties of men to work mi the coal and' make a good living. In these .-districts it is claimed that there are several blocks of coal which i'in bo opened up with little labour, end in close proximity to the railway. I l ' these blocks are worked it would niece a few thousand additional tons of coal on the market annually, as well c- Providing good employment for retooled men. It. is also claimed that I’ . ,-,, f s a f a ; r amount of land in the " 'i’dtv on which each man could build - home, keep n. eow or two and have a r ”ir garden. Air Fairball make* the ‘ ■■ '"‘"Pion that the Government should in the development of the mines ' laving of trams and 'sidings, the -v-rfto s fj n( j. pbe labour and all ma-to-;.,L implied to bo charged at the ’■'•to 0 f 10 ncr cent rental. He further ...vi- fbnt the cost of the mine to be '••ymod would be small, as the coal is almost alongside the railwav.