Coal Miners Receive Their Holiday Pay
GREYMOUTH, Dec. 13. About £63,6l)0 was distributed to Btate coalminers in the Grey district on Friday when holiday pav was paid in addition to the ordinary earnings. The total sum is about the sume as last year with some miners earning more and others a little lass. Actually tlio usual big pre-Ohristmas coal pro duction iigures .wero not achieved this. year, but the eft'ect of the half a crown a d'ay increase grant.ed earlier this year eompensated and prevented a drop in the Christmas pay envelope. Owing to the prevaleuce of influenza, absenteeism has been against big production in the past few weeks.
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Chronicle (Levin), 14 December 1949, Page 6
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109Coal Miners Receive Their Holiday Pay Chronicle (Levin), 14 December 1949, Page 6
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