Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Coal Industry – in the House of Commons am 12:00 am ar 30 Ionawr 1947.
Major Lloyd:
asked the Minister of Fuel and Power the total cost of the celebrations, including the provision of pamphlets to all colliery workers, held to mark the occasion of the nationalisation of the coalmining industry; whether the material for National Coal Board flags was supplied from couponed stocks; and on what grounds the notice outside each colliery states that it is owned by the National Coal Board.
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