Possible Clues:

• Looking after one's own pot buried in the disturbed mines
• Keeping it in the family?
• It could be relatively advantageous
• Partiality to pies cooked with prime cuts of nice meat
• The favouring of relatives or friends
• Jobs for the boys, to stop mine running wild
• Pet no. somehow is beginning to matter and it¿s being relatively helpful
• Preferential treatment
• This could settle me in post
• Favouring family over others