WAIKATO MINES

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 20918, 19 October 1942, Page 5

WAIKATO MINES

CONTROL BOARD HOPES OF MINISTER (P.A.) .WELLINGTON, this day. . The' Minister df Mine's, the Hori. P. C. Webb, announced to-day,, the personnel, of .the Waikato Coal Mines Control Board, as follows: —The Minister. of Mines, chairman,- Mr. Henry Morpeth, chairman of the Waikato Colliers’ Association,' and Mr. Hendry Luke, managing-director of Wilton Colleries, Mr. William Parsonage, superintendent, of Glen. Afton. Colleries, Mr. J. Watson, superintendent Of Taupiri Coal Mines, Mr. J. Devlin, acting secretary of the United Mine Workers.of New Zealand, Mr. T. Hall, secretary : of the ■; Northern , Miners’. Union, Mr. C. J. Strongman, superintendent of State coal mines. In the absence of the Minister, Mr, C. H. Benney, Under-Secretary of Mines, will act . as chairman.

Mr. Webb said he accepted without hesitation the nominations submitted by the mine-owners.and had selected two men who had received the greatest support. ,at individual...colleries from those nominated by the miners. The Minister., also expressed his belief that the board would .work together as a team .to produce .the maximum . quantity of coal, while giving the greatest measure of safety to the workmen.--- ----