Miners Miss Double Pay
GREYMOUTH, Fri. (Sp.) .—Although double time was payable for work on the first three working days of the new year, Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday of this week, there has been considerable absenteeism at the mines in the Grey district. The output at the main mines on the average has been down by onethird compared with the last working week in December.
The shorter working day of seven hours now being observed at the Dobson, and Wallsend mines coupled with a further series of morning stop-work meetings, has also affected production. Double time was paid in the mines for the first three days to compensate the miners for the three statutory holidays, Christmas Day, Boxing Day and New Year’s Day which came within the annual holiday period. Although coal mines in the Huntly district resumed yesterday after the holidays, barely a third of the men returned to work. The mines closed on December 18. Opinion at the collieries is that the men will return to work on Monday. At Taupiri 592 tons were hewn yesterday, compared with 780 on a normal working day.
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Northern Advocate, 9 January 1948, Page 3
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