MINERS’ WAGES
A MISUNDERSTANDING. MR T. O. BISHOP’S APOLOGY. (Pee United Pbess Association.) WELLINGTON, February 13. The following letter has been forwarded by Mr T. 0. Bishop, secretary to the Gold Mine Owners’ Association, to Mr P. O’Rourke, secretary of the Now Zealand Coal, Gold, Shale, and Quarry and Tunnel Workers’ Federation:—“On Friday last I received advice that the men employed at the Waihi mines .are paid six full days for 44 hours’ work. Acting on this information I published a statement in the press to that effect. I now find that my advice was incorrect and that tho miners are paid for only five days and a-half per week. I sincerely regret that this error should have occurred, and trust (hat you will accept my apology for tho sumo. I am publishing this letter in the press and I am also sending a copy to the Prime Minister.”
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 18787, 14 February 1923, Page 7
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149MINERS’ WAGES Otago Daily Times, Issue 18787, 14 February 1923, Page 7
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