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f CONVALESCENT HOME FOR; SOLDIERS. g By Telegraph.—Press AssociationTimavu, Last Night. After negotiation fof somn time witi , the owners, this Defence Department hw , dec-i'lfr! to commandeer, for a eonvalescent home for soldier?, the building to* S oently creeled for the Anglican Boys Orphanage, a couple of miles from Tim' av\i. at a cost of aboil* £lo,OOft ornhanase has heen occupied for a week by the bni's, who had previously l>ee» in a hired' building. The Government pay iCSOd a year, but this is made* ; quale,, and the Red Cross apA War B<f- ; lief Society add a joint donation of !t £2OO a year. . ■ / ■ ;* INCREASE IN MINERS' WAGBS. Dunedin, T.a<-t Nipht. <f In an address at. Kaitnn<;ata on Tuesday night, Mr. T*. Niven, a member of the executive of the Coal-miners' Feder- •> ation, stated that the owners had agreed 'i to increase the waffo* by 7V? per cent, to the pieceworkers and 10 per cent to wa?ea men. A ballot was taken at the • Kaitangata mines on Wednesday, rasuiting in 15S votes in favor of accepting the owners' proposals and 43 asrtmst the offer. He also stated that if tht j f/ners accepted the owners' proposal! j"; the new rates would coma into opera* 5 fcion on the 21st inst. 1
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Taranaki Daily News, 20 September 1918, Page 5
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212DOMINION NEWS. Taranaki Daily News, 20 September 1918, Page 5
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