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Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume XXXI, Issue 8840, 6 November 1942, Page 3

Plenty of Miners That there was no shortage of miners and that many experienced men were employed as truckers only was a statement made by a witness in a Supreme Court action in Christchurch. Mr Justice Northcroft made reference to advertisements for miners, and the release of miners from the armed forces,‘’.‘but the witness said that when a man working on, the coal face relinquished his position in the mine, if he went hack to that mine, he would not get back on the face. He would have to take a trucker’s job, which he described as unskilled, and work that anybody could do. At the present time, he said, there were many experienced miners employed as truckers. If he returned to the mine as a trucker it would be 18 months to three years before he could get back on the face.