MINERS QUEUE FOR TOBACCO
GREYMOUTH, April 30. An emphatic denial that their members were in reeeipt of any priority supplies of, tobacco or cigarettes, was given today by representatives of the - main local unions, miners, timber workers and watersiders. ( "We stand in queues with the re«t of the people" — this statement by Qnc offieer summed up the attitude of ah three. Air. C. A. Laing, Christchurch President of the Canterbury-Westland Tobacconistk' Association, in a state. ment reported in a Press Association niessage, said that while the averago smoker would have to put up with a two-fifths cut in supplj?s, waterside workers, miners and other Jravpured groups would contim-" to l-eeeive normal supplies on priority. "As far as the Runanga state miners are eoncerned, we never had priority and there has been no arrange ment in this direetioir, We received nothing more than a Government promise," doclared Air. G. E. English, p/'osideni of the State Minors' Umon.
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Chronicle (Levin), 1 May 1947, Page 6
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