ALL MINES IDLE.
IN NORTHERN NEW SOUTH WALES. LOCAL BOARDS ADVOCATED. (Received Wednesdav, 11.10 p.m.) SYDNEY, February 9. All the mines on the northern coalfield are idle to-day in accordance with last night’s decision. There is only sufficient coal at Newcastle to supply ships loading to-day. Thereafter the position will become serious. The Leader of the Federal Opposition (Mr. Charlton) and Mr. Watkins, a member of the House of • Representatives, telegraphed to Mr. Bruce asking him to appoint local boards immediately means of obviating the threatened hold-up of the mines.—(P.A.) MASS MEETINGS CALLED. BY MINERS’ FEDERATION COUNCIL. (Received This Day, 1.5 a.m.) SYDNEY, February 9. The Central Council of the Miners’ Federation decided that aggregate meetings should be held on Monday in all States except Queensland and Tasmania, where it is impracticable to got the miners together at such short notice.—(P.A.)
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/WAG19270210.2.35
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Wairarapa Age, 10 February 1927, Page 5
Word count
Tapeke kupu
141ALL MINES IDLE. Wairarapa Age, 10 February 1927, Page 5
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Wairarapa Age. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in