7. 8. 9. 10. Dean Stanley Street, Millbank, S.W.1. -2- Preliminary soundings of the Mineworkers' are unlikely to have any strong views one way or the other on this amendmen Neither will the former royalty owners, whom it does not affect. But the Mining Association may raise certain objections which, in my view, cannot b### sustained. The intention of the existing Section 13 - and of Parliament i### accepting it - was that the colliery freeholder's financial position should ### neither worsened nor improved as a result of the transfer of his freehold t### the Commission.