MORE MINERS WANTED.

Taranaki Daily News, 8 July 1920, Page 5

MORE MINERS WANTED.

MEN FROM AUSTRALIA SUGGESTED CABINET TO DISCUSS MATTER. ; (By Telegraph.—Special Correspondent.) Wellington, Last Night. A suggestion that the Government should bring miners to New Zealand from Broken Hill, where a strike has \ been in progress for many months, was .made in th,e House by Mr, Holland (Grey) to-day. The Dominion was suffering from a coal famine, and from a shortage, of tainers and general laborers, said Mr. (Holland. Would the Prime Minister favorably consider u proposal to bring 2000 caphble miners and laborers from Broken Hill to workf Homes would have to be provided for them, and these men would be available for publie works, for the coal mines, and, if necessary, for the gold mines. If the Prime Minister was willing to consider the proposal an arrangement could be made quickly. It would be cheaper to bring immigrants from Australia than from Britain.

Mr. Masaey .replied that he 'would be willing to receive a proposal and place it before Cabinet for «onsiderattoa . Many of the details, doubtless, <would rcquine discussion and examination. Additional miners certainly were needed in New Zealand. A coal famine wai causing suffering and hampering industry, and no means of increasing th< output from tlie mines should be neglected. The c.aMity of cement was merely a result of'the shortage of coal Mr. Massey added that under the piesent law quartz miners could not worS ) in coal mines. He thought thisirult should be amended during the present session. ,