MINERS' PAY

Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 129, 28 November 1923, Page 5

MINERS' PAY

ENGLAND AND NEW ZEALAND.

Marked differences between the rates of pay of coal miners in England and New Zealand aie quoted in the annual report of the New Zealand Employers' Federation. CoaUiewers' _ rates in England' are fchown as ranging from 7s 2.37 dto lls 11.85 d per day, as compared with aa I average range on the West Coast from liw F* Per Underground labourers at Home are quoted as lnS fam 5s lOd to 95*3.34 d per day, ond those in New Zealand from ISs 7d or 16s 6d per day, according to classification as first or secoiwUcla«s workmen Whereas boys at Home receive from 3s 3*d to 4s 4±d per day,.in New Zealand they are paid from 5s 6d to 14s 8a (ac; cording to age) if working underground, or front 5s to 13s if engaged on the surface. Other comparison* between England and New Zealand are made as, follows, the New Zealand rat« being shown in parentheses, and. consisting respectively of the wage paid per day at Westland and at Huhtly: Winding engine-drivers 8s 3d to 13s (19s 9d, 18s l6d); other en-gme-men, 6s 4d to 9s (16s lid to 18s 2d, 15s 6d to 17« 4d); firemen, 6s 6d to 9i 5d (15. 6d, 16s 3d to 16s 3d) • tradesmen, blacktenithi, carpenter* Mr-' 6« 7d to 9« 5d (18. 2d t6 JB6 6d).