COAL MINES BILL
FATE STILL UNCERTAIN
AMALGAMATION OF COLLIERIES
(British Official Wireless),
RUOBY, February 14
The fate of the Government’s Coal .Mines Bill, which is under consideration” in Committee in the House of Commons,- - is still -• uncertain. Last night, after a lengthy discussion, a clause relating to the appointment of Commissioners who, failing voluntary amalgamations of collieries, would have power to prepare compulsory schemes for such amalgamations, was carried by fBl votes to 1.82. The adoption of the clause was opposed hy the Conservatives, The n x President of the Board of Trade, Sir. xr. Cunliffie-Lister., declared that if the amalgamations paid they would be made voluntarily, wlierons the swamping of good collieries with the debts of bad ones would ruin efficiency. iSi.r Herbert Samuel (Liberal), in view of the modifications introduced into the scheme of oompulsory amalgamations, supported the clause. . The President of the Board of Trade, in his reply, said that the effect of the clause would be to encourage voluntary safeguards against unreasonable compulsory amalgamations.
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Hokitika Guardian, 19 February 1930, Page 3
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