IDLE COAL-MINES.
SCARCITY OF ORDERS. IMPORTATION RESENTED. By Telegraph—Press Association. Westport, Last Night. At a meeting of the Buller , Progress League to-night it was resolved: “That the league views with alarm the continued importation of coal into the Dominion, as it is having a very detrimental effect in closing down mines and shipping, and consequently sapping the industrial life of the people.” In the discussion it was mentioned that mines were idle for want of orders. The Government was losing revenue owing to the small quantity of coal carried over the railway connecting the mines with the port, that imported coal was more costly than the local production, and the payment for the former was going to a nontaxable population, thus adding to the taxation burdens of the people of the Dominion.
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Taranaki Daily News, 28 September 1921, Page 5
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132IDLE COAL-MINES. Taranaki Daily News, 28 September 1921, Page 5
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