NEWCASTLE COLLIERY CRISIS.
Press Association—Electric Telegraph—Copyright. SYDNEY, Last. Night. Iv connection with the demand made by the miners for au increase of eightpence per ton in the hewing rate, in place of the fourpeuce granted, the colliery proprietors have prepared a statement of wages earned at the principal collieries in the Newcastle aud Maitland districts during the past six mouths. , ~ At twenty-one pits the wages ranged from 10s to 16s, averaging about 13a. One colliery -ranged from lGs to 33s 10d. r • . The increase, of fourpenco in the hewing rate would mean au additional Is 3d per day in tho wages of each mau. ' . , By the closing of the;, Bur-wood aud Lambtou B pits over five hundred men have been rendered idle.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume LVII, Issue 8909, 8 November 1907, Page 5
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122NEWCASTLE COLLIERY CRISIS. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume LVII, Issue 8909, 8 November 1907, Page 5
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