§ Major NATHANasked the Secretary for Mines whether he will obtain from the joint accountants who act under the wages agreement a special statement showing the working results of colliery undertakings of various sizes during the period January to June, 1929, in a form strictly comparable with that given in Tables Nos. 5 and 6 on pages 54 and 55 of the Report of the 1925 Royal Commission on the Coal Industry?
§ Mr. TURNERI hesitate to undertake the considerable expenditure and labour involved, more especially as I doubt whether the information would add much to that which was before the Royal Commission. But when the Coal Mines Reorganisation Commissioners, proposed under the Government Amendments to the Coal Mines Bill, have been appointed, I will ask them to consider whether up-to-date information of this character would assist them.