POLICE CAMP.

Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 293, 11 December 1929, Page 7

POLICE CAMP.

TO PROTECT MINERS; Government To Open Rothbury;" Colliery. STRIKERS WILL GET NO DOLE.' (United P.A.—Electric Telegraph—Copyright? (Received 11 a.m.) . SYDNEY, this day. Before the Rothbury colliery is opened by the Government, a police camp will be established adjacent to the mine. Arrangements are also being made to enable the miners to live in tents. Similar plans apply to two' or three other collieries. The Premier, Mr. T. R. Bavin, an." nouneed after a Cabinet meeting yesterV day that preparations were almost corn-, plete for opening the Rothbury colliery on the terms which the miners' leaders had advised the men to accept. Steps were also being taken to secure the' opening of other mines. Delegates from all the miners' lodges will meet at Newcastle to-day, to formuV late a policy for the continuance of the strike, in accordance with the resolutions at the aggregate •neetings. The Rothbury miners who decline to work under the terms recommended by the union leaders will bo refused the dole by the Government. The same course will be followed with the other mines as the Government takes them over. Cabinet intends to man Rothbury, forthwith and it is expected that coal 1 hewing will start early next week.