COLLIERY DISPUTES There were twenty-seven industrial disturbances in New Zealand during; j last financial year, according to' the annual report of the Labour Departwent. The major disputes affected the | coal fields, the areas concerned being iDenniston, Hikurangi and Dobson. I Denniston mine, which was employing J 485 men, was idle for seventeen days through a difference concerning payj ment for power house work. At Hikurangi Wilson’s Collieries refused to make up the wages of three men to the minimum amount fixed by the agreement, on the ground that they should have been able to earn the minimum rate and that it was their own fault they did not do so. The other miners thereupon ceased work. Subsequently the company paid the amount of wages in dispute and the mine was taken over . by the men with a view to being work|edon a co-operative basis. The mine I which employed 178 men, was idle for , twenty-one days. The Dobson mine I was closed down for two months owing to a difference over the rationing of work*
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Hokitika Guardian, 7 October 1932, Page 6
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175Page 6 Advertisements Column 2 Hokitika Guardian, 7 October 1932, Page 6
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