PRODUCTION OF COAL
MINERS’ .RESPONSIBILITY. WARNING ISSUED BY MINISTER. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) AUCKLAND, March 3. Addressing a meeting of Maori miners at Huntly West, Mr Webb stressed the responsibility of the men to keep .up production for the war effort. Some of them were now making up to 32s a day trucking on the contract system, and some were doing no more work than if they .were on wages, he said. Unless better results were achieved the contract system must go. Some of the pakehas had been leading the Maoris astray. The Government was not going to tolerate stoppages. of coal production, and the next stoppage by any men at the mines 'would be their last. They would receive notice and their places would be given to men in the Army who were miners. The work of the great bulk of the men was excellent, but absenteeism was a trouble that would have to stop. Absentees would also find their places taken by men who were willing to do the work.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 4 March 1943, Page 4
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171PRODUCTION OF COAL Wairarapa Times-Age, 4 March 1943, Page 4
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