Subsidise Miners’ Pay
(P.A.) WESTPORT, This Day. The mining controller (Mr C. H. Benney) stated that he had been advised by the acting-Minister for Mines (Hon. J. G’Brien) that the Government had decided to meet the extra cost arising out of the recent increases of 71 per cent hewers’ piecework rates and 1/6 a shift to other workers by means of subsidy. The increased rates of pay, approved by the Government in respect of the State collieries and authorised by the Coal Mines Council for privatelyowned mines, followed the pronouncement by the Arbitration Court concerning wages generally and are retrospective to May 7 last. Mr Benney said that the subsidy would be computed on a tonnage basis to compensate for the actual increased cost. A circular setting out the procedure would be issued shortly by the Mines Department.
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Northern Advocate, 24 August 1945, Page 3
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138Subsidise Miners’ Pay Northern Advocate, 24 August 1945, Page 3
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