COAL MINES IDLE.
SERIOUS SHRINKAGE IN OUTPUT. Westport, Yesterday. Everything is peaceful in mining districts and large numbers of miners have left for other parts, and more are leaving in the morning. The mining leaders claim that the parlv is solid behind thorn in their determination not to make the first move to meet the mine owners. In the meantime the revenue over the railway is showing a serious shrinkage. In normal times, the Westport Coal Co.’s output from Millerton and Granity mines is 2000 tons daily, for Stockton 500 tons, and from co-operative parties 250 tons, but now there is only coal from the co-operative parties coming over the railway. The trains are reduced to two inward daily. There is slackness on the waterfront and the pay to-morrow will show a heavy shrinkage. The money due to the miners has been paid so that they have nothing now coming to them from the companies.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 2636, 22 September 1923, Page 3
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155COAL MINES IDLE. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 2636, 22 September 1923, Page 3
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