COAL SUBSIDIES
£1,224,030 DURING WAR WELLINGTON, Wednesday Subsidies for coal production and distribution have amounted to £1,224,030, states the Mines Statement, which was presented in the House of Representatives by the Minister of Mines, the Hon. P. C. Webb. Payments for the 12 months to March 31 last were £510,642. The year’s total was made up as follows:—Tonnage subsidy for increases held in the main stores, £428,645; subsidy in respect of coastal shipping freights, £12,590; subsidy in respect of the additional cost of work on back Saturdays and bonus payments to workmen not on contract, £69,407.
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Waikato Times, Volume 195, Issue 22459, 21 September 1944, Page 6
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