MINERS' PAY INCREASES
A GOVERNMENT SUBSIDY
P.A. WESTPORT. Thursday. The mining controller. Mr. C. H. Benney, stated to-day that he had been advised by the acting-Minister of Mines. Mr. O'Brien, that the Government had decided to meet the extra cost arising out of the recent increases of 7i per cent hewers piecework rates and .1/6 a shift to other workers by means of subsidv. The increased rates of pay, approved by the Government in reject of the State collieries and authorised by the Coal Mines Council for privately-owned mines, followed the pronouncement by the Arbitration Court concerning wages generally and are retrospective to May 7 last. . , . Mr. Benney said that the subsidy would be computed on a tonnage basis to compensate for the actual increased cost. A circular setting out the m-ocfidure -would be issued •shortly by the Mines Depaiment.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXVI, Issue 200, 24 August 1945, Page 8
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