The Council of the Tin Producers Associatin has -endorsed the re commendation of the Executive Committee that throughout 1930 all mining should cease from 10-o'elocke fu the evening on Saturday until 6 o'clock in the morning on Monday and also that mining operations should cease for a week of seven clear days both in January and February and, if necessary, in March.
'These recommendations were regarded as specifically sapphoable to the East, but "similar ratio of eur~ tailment' was recommended Nigeria' and other tin-producing areas on a basis more exactly suited to local conditions.
It is stated that the Malay States. have started to retard production, that Nigeria has adopted the alter~ native method of retarding output on a tonnage basis and that Bolivia has adopted a still more substantial curtailment, Conversations are proceeding with the tin interests in the Dutch Indies.
Operating companies in Cornwall. Australia, South tAfriea and in the Belgian Congo supported the Council's recommendations—Reuter,
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