18 JANUARY 1930, Page 34

GOVERNMENT'S COAL BILL.

In the course of his address at the meeting of Michael Nairn and Greenwich, the Chairman, Sir Michael. Nairn,-- speaking of the future of industry geueratly. _said Mat Ire viewed with real concern the rate at which public expenditure was increasing in this country, and he put in a strong plea for (Continued on page 108). the exercise of the strictest supervision over- disbursements from the public purse. Referring to the Government's Coal Bill, he gave an illustration from the_company's own business showing how the measures of that Bill—with an increase in the price of coal—if passed would be-mcist detrimental.

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