THE NEW ZEALAND DISPUTE.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXX, Issue LXXX, 14 February 1920, Page 5

THE NEW ZEALAND DISPUTE.

(by telegraph—press association ) "WELLINGTON, Feb. 33. Mr AArbuckle, secretary of the Miners' Federation, in reply .to the Welfare.League, states that he is prepared to donate £5 to the Wellington 'Hospital, .conditional on the League •writer doing the same, if th e statement is incorrect ihat the wages earned are just the same to-day as- before the iconference took j)lace regarding rates. He Bays that .in a typical section an the Denniston ,mirie, of 46 men on coal 36 receivM Is lid per ton and an.:added bonus of 25, "not 35, per cent.

(Little progress has been made at the conference, and it is likely that distiussion will continue into next week.)