CRISIS AT WAIHI.

Auckland Star, Volume XLII, Issue 140, 14 June 1911, Page 4

CRISIS AT WAIHI.

PREPARING POR THE WORfcj

SERIOUS RESULTS OP A Sl*^

(By Telegraph-Own conespondentj

WAIHI, this dar 1 understand that certain aro now being made at the 2S \\aih.G_ Company i n vie7oT2* possibility of the men being called t A firebell has been sheds supplied with fire hose _ are also being adopted to take _ horses out of the underground drives _ , the surface. Tinrber whicJi hadlLj sent to the bottom level for ti^.^* ; purposes is also being brougU • tt that ffche contracU are gradually adopting "all in t hY,„ . on the co-operative system, as r»_ by the union, but I am such parties are being made smaller iii that the contractors are restricting £ to men of their own choice. People here now are cominencinj fe reahse the seriousness of the sitafC and everyone is hoarding up spare S No other topic is being 0 disced In the event of a strike tie gas Bm .L would cease, and the place would r2 such a set-back that it would-prS : take half a decade to properly r __ ; itself. Great speculation is rife_^ . the manner in which the vote on ih. critical question will be taken _ t Union rules state that •''Voting at in . meetings may be by show of hand. M if two members so demand' votuw sC be by ballot." It is _ n „ "Sgi j urged that the ballot shonld be conS . ed in the same manner as at a munldtti i poll, and with independent scratineetv i CO-OPERATIVE CONTRACIo. ' i NOTIFICATION BY THE HMOS. r (By Telegraph.—Own Corresponaent.\

WAirH, this day.' The union issued a notice, this morning to the effect that after Batnfaay June 17, all contracts in and a-bbtit tie' mine are to be earned out on the tooperative system.