COST OF COAL PRODUCTION
INVESTIGATIONS BY THE BOARD By Telegraph--Prcas Association. enristchurch, October 2. The Board of Trade is investigating the coal-mining industry, and tlio cost of production from the time the coal is newed .until it reaches the consinner. Dr. Hight, Professor of Economics afc Canterbury College, who has been appointed a member of the board during tho investigation, sava the board began investigations at Wellington a fortnight ago, and then went to Auckland, where it took evideuco and surveyed the position generally in the Auckland district. Tho board next prpceedecl to Vv'aikato, and. is now in Christchurpli, where tho inquiry will be resumed to-morrow. Tho board will then visit Dtago. Southland, and tho West Coast. The investigations are being made very thorough, including the question of cost of living in tho coal-mining c|istriotß.
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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 7, 3 October 1918, Page 6
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135COST OF COAL PRODUCTION Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 7, 3 October 1918, Page 6
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