WHAT COLLIERS EARN

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1946, 17 September 1888, Page 2

WHAT COLLIERS EARN

• ♦■* — ■' ...'... The "Sydney Morning Herald" rel terates its statement oonoernlng the ratea of pay to the colliers who have gono oat on sulke. Its speolnl at Newcastle has Bent it the following : — "ln glancing over I some of the pay aheeta In. the mjnager'o | offioo of the Burwood Colliery to-day I ; copied the earnings per day of thlrty.two men for a fortnight from the 6th Inst. The pay-nheet wan the firßt one I took up, and here are the figures as they appear m the day column : 17b 2d, 21a <M, lla 6d, 12i 51, 16a 4d, 9i 6J, 9a 10d, 10s lid, 10b i Id, lla 2d, 13s 6d, 10a lOd, 12j 91, 16j , Id, 18j, 12a 4d, 13s SJ. 14s Id, 13s 3d, ' 10a 6d, l§a 10d, 9. 9J, 12b W, 13a 4d, lls ( 3d, 12a 3d, 10a Bd, 12*, 14a sd, 13s Qi, , 18a 6J, and 12a',ld. This U not a picked sheet, and can be taken as a fair average per day of tbelr earnings. In other sheets for the preaent month It appears that i some of the best coal-hewera earned j 22a per day, and m only one Instance did a figure »s low as 7a 61 appear, and this was the payment of a man who i§ a very Inferior coal miner. This 7s 6J Is the average Viotorfan miner'a earning!. It muat alao be stated that In the instances where the earnings per day reached as high as 22', the men only worked five days aweek, evidently being satisfied to auch an ( extent that a holiday for a day's fishing, t coursing, or shooting, the favorite pas- i times of the coal miners np here, oonld be availed of In the happiest frame of ! nvnd. a faot worth mentioning and one j very apropos la that the miner c oan take i two holidays m the week without asking the manager or giving any Intimation whatever of It. If, however, the miner is ■ absent the third day, he is expeoted to J aend a satisfactory excuse. la one batob ' of cix men paid, I found that In fonr \ weeks they divided £92." J