WORK AND WAGES.
I Special to Press Association,! LONDON, Dec. 81. At a meeting of shareholders in the Greta collieries, the accounts, showing a debit balance of iJ20,000, wore rejected, and a committee was appointed to consider the propriety of suspending work till trade revives. It was stated that the excessive price paid to tbe miners rendered the payment of a dividend remote. SYDNEY, Jan. 1. At tho Kerra, Mount Pleasant and South Clifton colleriea reductions in. the hewing rates are likely to ha accepted. Speaking at a representative meeting of miners, the chairman said tho nationalisation of the mines was the only salvation, for the men.
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Lyttelton Times, Volume LXXXI, Issue 10235, 2 January 1894, Page 4
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