N.S.W. COAL CRISIS
FEDERAL PROPOSALS
(Australian. Press As-.-, nation)
CANBERRA,. Feb. 21
The Prime Minister, Mr Bruce, announced to-day a proposal to nppoiul a Royal Commission In make a till inquiry into the coal industry. i lie terms of reference arc now under consideration. Ail the parlies com-nicd in industry have been asked to a preliminary conlcrenco at Canberra on Monday, when the terms of reference will he settled.
Later Air Bruce laid before Parliament a number of documents relating to the stagnation of tlie coal mining in Now South Wales. He stressed 'lie. need for a reduction of the places of coal, and added that this investigation revealed that at least ten hou.-.niul miners on the northern holds had not received the basic wage, owing to the intermittenoy of the employment. Air Bruce estimates Hint his Governmeuf’s promised bounty of Is per ton 00 eon 1 , for export (as cabled yesterday) would cost the taxpayers of Australia £350,000 a year.
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Hokitika Guardian, 22 February 1929, Page 6
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