AUSTRALIAN MINERS
' THAT MYSTERIOUS MESSAGE. Most people in this country were surprised to read the cable news jnessage from Australia stating that the Prime Minister,' of New Zealand had telegraphed to the Government of New South Wales asking for 200 goldminers and 44)0 coaliniuers, owing to the shortage of these workers in New Zealand.
A statement was made by'the Minister of Minos (the Hon. W. D. ,S. MacDonald) yesterday. setting out the roasons which prompted tho Government to make the proposition. Tho Minister's explanation was as follows:—"The Government, hearing through the local Press of tho closing of certain copper mines in Australia, owing to the fall in tho prico of copper, and the consequent uneinployment, 60 much so that the town of Cobar was threatened with extinction, dispatched a cablegram to tho Premier of New South Wales, saying that work was available in New Zealand for, a considerable number of both gold and coalminers, as several of tho quartz mines are very short-handed indeed, and the Government contemplates- opening up an extensive new coalmine at the Nine Mile, near Point Elizabeth, in which (and also in tho present Liverpool mine) a large number of men could be cniplfiyed."
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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 191, 8 May 1919, Page 6
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198AUSTRALIAN MINERS Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 191, 8 May 1919, Page 6
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