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THE PRICE OF COAL.

INVERCARGILL, Sept. 19. With reference to the remarks made by the Hon. G. W. Russell at Christ 1 church on Saturday to a deputation from the Coal Merchants and Dealers' Association, Mr William Handyside, managing director of the Nightcaps Coal Company, sent the following telegram to the Minister on Monday:—"A Press Association telegram from Christchurch says that at your meeting with coo.l merchants you said that the people the State had intended hitting were the owners of coal mines. Our company wishes to know' what justification you have for this sweeping statement, seeing that during the last 85 years we ha\*e supplied the Southland public at fair market rates, fluctuating not more than 2s por ton, and that without any ': State competition." Yesterday Mr Handyside received the following reply:-— "My reference at Christchurch was not to individual coal companies like yours, which are local in character, but to those companies whose operations control prices throughout the Dominion. 1 am pleased to know your company has conducted its operations so fairly throughout its long existence. I wish; you continued success.,. If other districts were served equally welH-the need for State coal mines to steady prices- would not have existed."

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Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXXVI, Issue 3559, 20 September 1916, Page 7

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THE PRICE OF COAL. Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXXVI, Issue 3559, 20 September 1916, Page 7

THE PRICE OF COAL. Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXXVI, Issue 3559, 20 September 1916, Page 7

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