£6,000,000 COAL DEAL.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3345, 25 November 1919, Page 3

£6,000,000 COAL D EAL.

GIANT Coi\i'lTß:vbq* .SEALED. 'Mr H. Seymour Berry, who is ilssoeiated with hir D. R. LiC\\'<‘irl_\’ll in n £6,000,000 coal “deal” in Soumh W:i.l'es. Says the tl'aii.sacl‘.ioxi also in <:‘lu<l(_4.< ‘steell all(L'(Silippillg .i_r.~:o;-gsts, The (‘.olli'l'il(',i, he says, has been signed, sealed. and (i(‘.ilV(‘!‘(‘(i. Wlien the pvineipzils feel Llisposexl to disclose the details. it will pl'obabl_\' be fuiiiid that one firm only is conrzernnd. )'les.sl's Llewelyn and BCl'1)' are already connee-ted \\'il‘ll briqnetle m:lnn~ faeturi-rig firms, as well as shipping {uni haulage companies. _ I\'/‘lr D. R. Llewelyn is :1 Il¢.lti\'C of :\berCmre, wliere he .st'.‘-I‘iexl_ with his faextlier in 9. comparatively small un(io’.'tal{lllg', the Bwlfa Collimgv. 'l‘hen he went to» the United States to study mining eond‘ilions. Returning to South \Vales he launc.he,d om, first with wli-at is known as shallow coal seams. and so no unclertaking‘ seemed too big for him and his friend, Mr B‘m'i-y. to tackle. - Afr Berry, like Mr Llewelyn, is '3. comparatively young man. He lives at Merthyr, and succeeded to the business of his fill‘-hel', an estate agenl, who» was also for some years political agent £01» :the late Lord Rhondda, when the latter was Mr D. A. Thomas. The son developed his interests in_ concerns with which l".ord Rhonclda was coniiectgiui. z=.n<l devoted himself ’ro company finance. 1-]ig.most proniinem efl'ort. was directed to the founding‘ of :9. teelinieal school at Merthyr, in memory of his fa-meg, ‘Towards :'ihis he oiifererl £20,000. ‘