MINERS IDLE
LIVERPOOL COLLIERY HITCH OVKB TRANSPORT (0.C.) GREY.MOUTH, Monday. Because of the faijure of the Railway Department this afternoon to provide the customary conveyance for the return trip home of wet-time workers engaged at the Liverpool State colliery at Rewanui, the mine will be idle to-morrow.
This is in accordance with a resolution on the books of the State Miners' Union that the mine shall not- work on any day following that on which there is no provision for the conveyance of wet-time men who leave the mine before two o'clock and are brought to Dunollie, Runanga and Grey mouth at about 3.15 p.m. by an earlier train than that which takes the majority of the mine employees to the same "destination, leaving Rewanui about 4.30 p.m.
On account of adverse weather, which has hampered shipping in the past two weeks and is continuing to do so, the bins at the Liverpool mine are practically full,'and a continuation of present conditions would he likely to bring .about a stoppage at this mine and probably at other mines. The Kiwitea and Holmiea have been in the roadstead for two days with no likelihood of berthing before to-morrow or Wednesday, there being extremely rough seas on the bar.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXII, Issue 123, 27 May 1941, Page 9
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207MINERS IDLE Auckland Star, Volume LXXII, Issue 123, 27 May 1941, Page 9
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