N.S.W. COAL INDUSTRY
ROYAL COMMISSION TO SIT PRICE REDUCTION NECESSARY CANBERRA, Thursday. The Prime Minister, Mr. Bruce, announced to-day that he proposed to appoint a Royal Commission to make a full inquiry into the coal industry. Thci terms of reference are now under con -^deration. All the parties concerned in the industry have been asked to attend a preliminary conference at Canberra on Monday, when the terms of reference will be settled. Later in the day Mr. Bruce laid before Parliament a number of documents relating to the stagnation of coalmining in New South Wales. Me laid stress upon the need for a reduction in the price of coal. Mis investigations had revealed that at least 10,000 miners on the northern holds had not received the basic wage owing to their intermittent employment. The Prime Minister estimates that the Commonwealth Government’s promised bounty of one shilling a ton on coal for export would cost the taxpayers of Australia £. 350,000.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 595, 22 February 1929, Page 9
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