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ABERMAIN MINERS. / W OABLI— PRIBB ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT Received Aug. 8, 10.10 a.m. SYDNEY, Aug. 8 The Abennain colliery is idle owing to trouble over the darn. A meeting of miners decided to fix a daily darg instead •of a fortnightly one. at present. For the top seam of c-oal the darg is twenty-two skips for machine won and eighteen for pick won coal. For the lower seam tlie respective numbers are twenty-four and twenty-two. A miner filling more than his allotted number of. skips is to be fined £1 and tlie value of the extra skips taken from him. It is proclaimed that the object of the daro- is to equalise the distribution of slaps, more especially when there is a shortage of trucks. - OThe darg is equivalent to the <ro- - policy in New Zealand.] ° A STORMY MEETING. NEWCASTLE, Aug. 8. the coal trimmers decided at a stonpy meeting to resume work this Tuormng. The conciliation commissioner convened a compulsory conferepce between representatives of the iVline Deputies Association and the s;!sfg cSis.' tIM disi, " te -
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 8 August 1924, Page 9
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176GOING SLOW Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 8 August 1924, Page 9
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