VICTORIAN STATE COAL MINES.
SELECT COMMITTEE'S REPORT
The Select Committee's report on the Victorian. State Coal Mine states that the area already proved contains live million tons. Until the development discloses that a much greater quantity is available, the. present conditions of working the mine for the railways and aijiovernment Departments, and 5 slack coal only, had better be Hied.
The report recommends the immediate transfer of the management to the .Railway Commissioners, and the thorough equipment and development of the mine, so as to permit during an emergency of double or treble the normal output. This is important in. the event of strikes, and also to act as a regulator of the price of Newcastle coal. A searching inquiry into tlio administration of the Mines Department is suggested, the evidence having disclosed that there was a complete disregard of commercial methods and' a waste of public funds during the. emergency period consequent on the Newcastle strike.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3115, 11 January 1911, Page 2
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157VICTORIAN STATE COAL MINES. Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3115, 11 January 1911, Page 2
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