Report of the Gold Coast Mines Boards of enquiry 1959

Abstract

We sat in public in Takoradi on the 20th, 21st, 23rd, 24th, 25th, 26th, 27th, 28th, 30th and 31st days of January, 1956 and on the 1st, 3rd, 4th, 6th, 7th, 8th and 9th days of February, 1956 to hear the submissions of the parties to the dispute. On Sunday, 5th February 1956, we visited the Amalgamated Banket Areas Ltd. mine and the Taquah and Abosso Mines Ltd. mine (which had then just closed down) and inspected some of the companies' houses for employees and the Amalgamated Banket Areas Ltd. hospital. Both of these mines are in the Tarkwa area. On Saturday, 11th February 1956, we visited the property of Consolidated African Selection Trust Ltd. at Akwatia, and as some of the company's employees weri!not on strike we saw some of the company's mining operations. We also visited some of the houses of the company's employees and inspected the hospital. On both days we were accompanied by representatives of the Employers and of the Union. One member visited the Ashanti Goldfields Corporation Ltd. on the 5th April, 1956, accompanied by the Secretary to the Board, and was shown some of the employees' housing, the hospital and the Eaton Turner development shaft