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Page 188
... eight hours a day , seven days a week . Once in three weeks , when they changed from night shift to afternoon shift , they enjoyed a 32 - hour holiday from eight o'clock on Sunday morning until four o'clock on Monday afternoon . For ...
... eight hours a day , seven days a week . Once in three weeks , when they changed from night shift to afternoon shift , they enjoyed a 32 - hour holiday from eight o'clock on Sunday morning until four o'clock on Monday afternoon . For ...
Page 200
... eight - hour day be sacred , that the company discard inferior candles and explosives , that the miners be allowed to smoke in working hours , that the wage for first - class miners be 15s . 6d . instead of 10s . 6d . a day , that the ...
... eight - hour day be sacred , that the company discard inferior candles and explosives , that the miners be allowed to smoke in working hours , that the wage for first - class miners be 15s . 6d . instead of 10s . 6d . a day , that the ...
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... eight years for that return . At this time Robert Sticht , directing his company's west coast explorations , was impressed with the chance of amassing a fortune for his company by devising a cheap method of saving the zinc . He sent ...
... eight years for that return . At this time Robert Sticht , directing his company's west coast explorations , was impressed with the chance of amassing a fortune for his company by devising a cheap method of saving the zinc . He sent ...
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Australian mining began blast body boom Bowes Kelly British Broken Hill cable cent copper company's Comstock copper Creek Crotty Crotty's diggers dividends Dixon Dundas Eldon Ranges Emu Bay engineer feet field fire floated furnaces gold goldfield Gormanston gossan Gould gully hauled Heemskirk Hobart hundred investors Iron Blow Karlson Kelly Basin King River Knox later Launceston Linda Valley lode London Lyell directors Lyell Mining Lyell railway Lyell shares Macquarie Harbour manager McDonough Melbourne metallurgist miles mill miners Mining Company months Mount Lyell mountain North Lyell North Lyell Company open cut ounces paid pany pegged Pieman Pieman River port profit prospecting prospectors pyritic Queen River Queenstown rail rich rock Rosebery rush Schlapp shaft shareholders ship silver smelters smelting South Sticht Strahan sulphur Tasmanian Tharsis thousand timber tons town track Trent Trial Harbour tunnel Victorian Waratah west coast West Lyell western Zeehan zinc