MEN LEAVING MINES
OUTDOOR WORK AND ARMY (Special) GREYMOUTH, Nov. 25. A number fl of coal miners have left their employment in the last few weeks to take up seasonal and more congenial outdoor work. Others have joined the armed forces. The majority of those who have left are truckers and shiftmen, whose earnings are governed by smooth working time, whereas miners can make up lost time because their incomes for coal hewing are based on contract rates. Because of difficulty in replacing men leaving the mines, it may be found necessary in order to keep up production to take miners off coal and put them on trucking and on shiftwork. The State mines at Rewanui and Nine Mile are the most affected so far.
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Southland Times, Issue 24602, 26 November 1941, Page 6
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125MEN LEAVING MINES Southland Times, Issue 24602, 26 November 1941, Page 6
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