DAILY EARNINGS OF MINERS
♦ I HIGHEST GROSS RATE £3/18/8 FIGURES FOR LAST YEAR From Our Own Reporter WELLINGTON, September 26. Increases in the daily average earnings of coal hewers were recorded last year in all but two State collieries—the Blackball and the Mangapehi. Miners whose earnings increased most were those working at the Tatu colliery. Their gross daily earnings averaged £3 18s 8d and after the deduction of expenses for explosives they received a net wage of £3 13s 6d, and an increase of 10s 9d a day. The net earnings of coal hewers at other collieries, with the daily increase in parenthesis, were as follows —Webb Colliery at Stockton, £3 4s 7d (7s, lid); Fly Creek Colliery at Stockton,; £3 2s (7s 2d); Liverpool, £2 19s 6d (Is 6d); Wairaki, £2 18s lid (Is 4d); Strongman, £2 IBs 3d (5s 4d); Wallsend, £2 17s 6d (8s 2d); Dobson, £2 16s 6d (6s 2d); Mossbank, £2 15s 4d (lOd). Hewers at Blackpool netted £2 7s 6d, a decrease of 6d a day, and those at Mangapehi, £2 16s, a decrease of i Since Burke’s Creek was taken over by the State on June 1, the average net daily earnings have been £2 4s 1 4d.
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Press, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 25300, 27 September 1947, Page 3
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