COAL PRODUCTION
MINE OWNERS PRESIDENT AND UNION SECRETARY. AGREEMENT ON MAIN POINTS. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, June 22. The following comment was made today by the president of the New Zealand Coal Mine Owners’ Association, Mr C. C. Davis, on the statements of the secretary of the United Mine Workers of New Zealand, Mr A. McLaglan, about the present coal shortage.
“Mr McLaglan has termed colliery companies and myself “the capitalist bourbons,’ ” he said. “That sounds highly sinister, but I have not the least idea of what it means. In any case there is no intention whatever, on my part, to enter into a contest,of picturesque abuse. In that I should be well back in second place. “Turning to Mr McLaglan’s reply, it seems clear that we are agreed upon the main points: (1) That New Zealand has ample coal resources for all her requirements; (2) that men to get coal out are available; (3) that it is not being done.
“Surely the subject can be approached temperately, in search of a remedy, without resort to personalities.” Mr Davis added that the problem was becoming serious, and the shortage was becoming acute. The Minister of Mines was fully conversant with it.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 23 June 1939, Page 4
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