THE COAL SETTLEMENT.

Taranaki Daily News, 10 March 1920, Page 5

THE COAL SETTLEMENT.

CONTROL OF STATE MINE

A BOARD OF MANAGEMENT, By Teleeraph.—Prose Association. Wellington, March !). At tho conference between the miners' delegates and the coal owners, the Government made an important offer to the Slate miner-, which lias now been submitted in detail to the State Miners' Union for decision. Jt suggested that a beard of management for the State Mine be set up consisting of the Minister of Mines, who vTiihl be .chairman, the Under-Secretary of the Mines Department, with a commercial man, to be appointed by the Government, and a representative of the miners, who shall l:e appointed by ballot every three years. The elected member U to receive C-? :">- 11 day when absent from work on the business of the board, wlm-h shall meet monthly. Tlio Oovev«mr-" r s sthenic indicates thai llio pi-oin,.-e<l I.Vtard of Maim gomcr.t. if constituted s'bnnlH lip asked 4 o arrange a= quicklv a* possible for the erection of a rii'iiciejn number 0;" homos for rh" miner' It is al=o proposed by the Government flint a schpmc '"< formulated providing (lie Stale miners with superannuation and insurance acuinst loss from sic':ness or unemployment.