TWENTY-SIX SHILLINGS A DAY
»__ . COALMINERS AVERAGE FOE YEAE. ■Speaking at the annual meeting or.tlm Paparoa Coal Mining Company yesterday, Mr. T. S. Weston, one or the receivers, stated that the. wages paid to the miners at Paparoa. during tlw past year were probably a little higher than at any other mine in New Zealand. Their pay had averaged throughout the year— or that part of the year the men worked—nt 2Gs. a day, yet this high rate of pay had not fresd the company of trouble from strikes. With other mines, they had suffered from stoppage of work, and were now hampered by a strike that had developed only on Friday Inst. They probably suffered a little more than others on that account owing to being short of accommodation for married men. The men were mostly single men at Pnparoa, which made them more independent than the married men, who in some cases on the Coast Jiad been born and bred in the district in which they worked.
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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 25, 24 October 1918, Page 6
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168TWENTY-SIX SHILLINGS A DAY Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 25, 24 October 1918, Page 6
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