BOYS EMPLOYED IN COAL MINES
AGE LIMIT FOR UNDERGROUND WORK [From Our Own Reporter.] HOKITIKA, September 20. The law prohibiting the employment of young boys beneath the surface in mines was quoted by the Hon. P. C. Webb, Minister for Mines\ commenting to-day on newspaper references to the death of a boy under 16 at Kaitangata. The Minister said that under the Coal Mines Amendment Act,, passed last year, a boy under 16 was not permitted to be employed in a coal mine underground. The boy who was killed at Kaitangata was working on the surface as a rope boy. He could not under the law, have been allowed to work underground. In gold mines, no boy under 18 was allowed to work underground.
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Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22512, 21 September 1938, Page 7
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