PROPOSED GOVERNMENT GOAL MINE.
» FKI PRIS3 ASSOOIATIOK. Receired 12, 9.30 a.m. Stdbby, March 12. The Herald, commenting on Mr Seldon'g proposal of a national coal ■line, says: "Were the nationalisation of mines to become a recognised thing private enterprise would of courts bv raioed. Government, influenced by politico 1 pressure, would pay wages no private owiier could hope to pay." The paper concludes that the prepounr'er «f the scheme does not teem to understand that there is do particular virtue in a i GorornnK-nr, taxpayers *nd conunmere being one and the same. There is bo saving in having money taken out of one pock't and put into another. Tue D-»ily Telegraph takes it that the proposal is only to provide ucdtr Stat- cntrol coal for Stats use, Vut if producing for the general market isundertaken the Government cm beat all competitors, e<?en though if, be at th> cost of taxpayers in se-ersl. It »p----preves of providing a Stat« supply, but coEfide-'s the wider sclierce littljtc
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXIII, Issue 49, 13 March 1901, Page 3
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165PROPOSED GOVERNMENT GOAL MINE. Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXIII, Issue 49, 13 March 1901, Page 3
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