TELEGRAMS

Hokitika Guardian, 3 February 1922, Page 3

TELEGRAMS

[by TELEGRAPH—PER TRESS ASSOCIATION]

COAL OWNERS MEET. j WELLINGTON, February 2. I ; At the fourth general meeting of the New Zealand Coal Mine Owners’ Association, Mr William Reece, the President stated that the year under review could not be said to be very encouraging from' the standpoint of companies that are working the coal mines. Most of the Companies were I very short of men, which had prevented them from mining all the coal that they could Sell; When they were just beginning to obtain good results, lie said, a slump, came, like a bolt from the blue. It had caused short tiftA to be worked at many mines, which, consequently reduced the outputs and the returns. A shortage of con] during the war had caused the railways and ! othe r large industries to refy Upon imported coal. Large orders were placed, the balance of which were only now arriving. Until these were used up, the New Zealand mines would certainly feel the pinch. . Referring to the making of awards by the Arbitration Qoui't lately to govern conditions in the coal mining industry, Mr Reece mentioned that it was felt that the time had arrived for the ending of bickering and uncertainty in the industry oiling to incessant labour troubles. Mr Reece said he sincerely hoped the awards would be the forerunner of a better understanding. Office lieiirers were elected as fol lows

President, Robert Lee (Kaitangalu) Vice-President, Col. Holgate; Executive; Sir George Clifford, Hoii. E. W. Allison, E. S. Wright, W. A. Flatel!, T. S. Weston, and Wm. Reece.

COMING court case. GREY-MOUTH, Feb. 3. Considerable interest is aroused in proceedings to be heard at Grey month Magistrate’s Court next Wednesday, when the Department of T.aboui' m claiming £2OO from William Balderstone, Secretary of the Blackball Miners’ Union for alleged breach of the industrial conciliation ,'irbjtratioii Act. Six members of the Uriiofi, including the President and Secretary will bO charged with a breach of the Police Offences Amendment Act the system of l intimidation being alleged, j -MOTOR CAR CAPSIZE; DANNEVIRKE, Feb. 3. Two men are now in Dannevirke fiiojs'pital as the result of a motor 1 accident near WoOdvillc. One named Ship, a member of the Annette Keller, man Coy., had his leg brokeri ahfl til* other Munro Gabriel, a wine and spirit merchant of Palmerston North, has a fractured pelvis and his condition is critical The driver of the ca r had Ids shoulder dislocated. Tlife cap coming to Dannevirke from Palmerston North and capsized. Little, another member of the Kellerman Coy "ho was in the car escaped injury. ,