MOUNT ISA DISPUTE
Loss Of Wages And Exports (N.Z.P.A.-Reuter—Copyright) BRISBANE, Oct. 25. Mount Isa mine workers had lost £400.000 in wages and the national economy £2.000.000 in export minerals since the mine closed on September 25 after a series of union bans and restrictions, mine officials said. The dispute has meant the loss of 220.000 tons of ore and the cancellation of 50 ore trains which normally would have left Mount Isa. In Brisbane, the Senior Industrial Commissioner. Mr H. J. Harvey, has ordered another compulsory conference <the third) in an effort to settle the dispute. Moran and Cato.—-Moran and Cato (Auot.) Ltd., retail grocers, lifted c.msoHdated net profit in the year to Julv » last from £384,628 to £468.585. OMinSy dividend has been increased from 8 1-8 per cent, to 10 per £BBO.lBB. Profit, which is from a preliminary report and subject to audit, was after taxation increased from £392J85 to £M7 COO-(PA.) (
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Press, Volume C, Issue 29657, 30 October 1961, Page 18
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