NATIONAL CONTROL
OVER COAL PRODUCTION IN AUSTRALIA PLAN TO BE SUBMITTED TO PARLIAMENT. WIDE POWERS PROPOSED. (By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright) (Received This Day, 1.5 p.m.) CANBERRA, This Day. For the first time since the war began in September, 1939, legislation to control coal mining will be introduced to the Commonwealth Parliament. A Controller of Mining may be appointed, in an attempt to end the trouble on the coalfields. Details of the Government’s plan are being kept secret, but it is understood that the tighter system of Government control which is planned, will not amount to nationalisation of mining. The controller who is likely to be appointed would have power to direct production, to take charge of any mines he considered were inefficiently managed, or to driect men to work in certain mines. It is believed that a majority of Ministers favour the appointment of the present Coal Commissioner, Mr Norman Mighell, as the new statutory authority. Mr Mighell is regarded as having done the most painstaking and patriotic work with very limited powers.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 8 February 1944, Page 4
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