WAIHI MINERS
TERMS OF NEW AWARD
[PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.]
AUCKLAND, Dec. 10
Awards were delivered by the Arbitration Court, to-day, in four separate disputes affecting the gold-mining industry in the Waihi and Thames district. The workers covered by the new award are the Thames, Ohinemuri and Waihi gold-miners, engineers, enginedrivers, winders, motormen, and firemen. The principal changes made in the awards are the elimination of Saturday work in mines, a provision that work in batteries shall cease at 8 a.m. on Saturdays, and a general increase in the minimum rates of pay. It is provided generally that a ’4O-hour. week, in eight-hour shifts, shall be worked from Monday to Friday, by all men engaged underground, and certain classes of surface labour. The minimum daily rates of pay for ordinary miners in the new scale are from 19/3 to 19/9. compared with 16/11A in the old award.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 10 December 1937, Page 2
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