MINERS' WANTS.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 13271, 17 September 1906, Page 5

MINERS' WANTS.

.Pec Press ; Association. , ."Wellington, September 17. The Trades > and Labour' Council of "West/port waited, on the [Minister for • Mines, urging; , a^nendinent in the mining laws. • r U3ey asked that - the banktoiank clans-3- 'be made universal,, that the sick and accident fund be .consolidated .^and concerted. int o - -a national fund for the whole State, that deputy or shift 'bosses be compelled to pass examinations in gases, that old workings should not . be- sealed up, as gases accumadated, that' no rock-drilling m a chine be permitted unless , continually sprayed with water, to keep down the dast, that no batteries w o rk /on' Sunday, that Where Sunday work ,is permitted it be paid for at double rates, < r and .that royalty A>e .imposed on gold for the benefit . of the Miners' Sick • Fund. ■ They pointed . out : a - royalty of -3d per dunce i woitld produce £5000" annually. . The, Hon.. /J. ,'McGowan promised to co/nsid^r what alterations, the Government Would l>e justified in maliing in * i\n Hasv, b«t . they must hear ' both sides. , If .there was Sunday crushing, that was a matter, fo^ : the police. Personally, 'he saw necessity for working overtime.