IMPORTATION OF MINERS.
MINISTER'S STATEMENTS. By Telegraph—Press Association. Wellington, Last Night. Regarding the cablegram from Sydney stating that a cable had been received from New Zealand asking for gold miners and coal miners, owing to the shortage of labor in the Dominion, the Minister for Mines made the following statement to-day: "The Government, hearing through the local press of the closing of certain copper mines in Australia owiug to the fall in the price of copper and the consequent unemployment, so much, so that the town of Cobar was threatened with extinction, despatched a cablegram to the Premier of New South 'Wales saying that work was available in New Zealand, for a considerable number of quartz mines are very short handed indeed, and the Government contemplates opening up an extensive new coal mine at Nine Mile, near Port Elizabeth, in which (and also in the present Liverpool mine) a large number of men could be employed."
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Taranaki Daily News, 8 May 1919, Page 5
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156IMPORTATION OF MINERS. Taranaki Daily News, 8 May 1919, Page 5
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