Drawers used to hold pay slips

Office furniture
Tributers

Hannans North Tourist Mine has a pay office building with an original set of drawers which were used to hold the pay and tribute slips for every employee. In the early goldrush, miners would bid against each other for contracts and to work different sections of a mine. Miners were paid a percentage of the value of the ore. This method is known as the tribute system of mining. Tributes worked in groups and had a set portion of the workload assigned to them, which was called a tribute pitch. The pay slips for tributes were paid out through the pay office at each mine.

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Hannans North Tourist Mine

Mining in the Goldfields, from the beginning.

Put on your walking shoes as you walk through the ages of mining. Pan for gold and feel tiny in a reconstructed haul pak dump truck. The Hannans North Tourist Mine displays an array of mining items...

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130 Goldfields Highway
Mullingar WA 6430
Australia

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Sun to Fri 9am - 4pm

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