Chook's Tracks
Eight Hour Day
Ordinary Miners 8/6 per day = 85 cents
Machine Men 9/- per day = 90 cents
Shaft Hands 9/- per day = 90 cents
Engine Drivers 10/- per day = $1.00
Battery Hands 8/- per day = 80 cents
Census for Owharoa 1877
No. of Miners 36
No. of Women 3
No. of Children 6
No. of Storekeepers 3
No. of cattle 120 Head
No. of horses 6
A Battery driven by waterpower 10 pence per hour
Agriculture Sections 15
Residents 6
Area Cultivated 250 acres
Amalgamated Miners Association Sick Pay 1890
Entrance Fee 2/6 = 25 cents.
Contributions weekly, paid fortnightly 6 pence = 5 cents.
A Levy of 9 pence per quarter to Funeral Fund plus 1 penny per month to General Fund.
Also Levy of 6 pence ( 5 cents ) per member.
Weekly Sick Pay for the first 12 months = £1.
After that 10/- per week.
Funeral Donation £50.
(From: Mary and Francis Murray and Annie - Elsie M. Graydon, 1987)