HIKURANGI MINE

Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 287, 31 August 1931, Page 11

HIKURANGI MINE

Delegates Meet Owners WORKINGS IN DANGER '■■; j Z ;• . ■ " ~ By Telegraph—Press Association. Whangarei. August 29. There is no immediate sign of the settlement of the strike at Wilson’s (N.Z.) Portland Cement Company’s mine at Hikurangi, which has been idle since August 10. The last development was contained in a letter to the secretary of the Hikurangi Miners’ Union, in which the manager of the Hikurangi Coal Company stated that Wilson’s placed an order for 500 tons>of coal weekly, from the Hikurangi ■ company’s mine, which would enable fulltime work there,, and help considerably in relieving the general stress. The president of the Miners' Union promptly rejoined that if any coal were supplied to Portland from the Hikurangi company’s mine the union would order the withdrawal of all mon from that colliery. The miners’ delegates, who met Wilson’s directors nt Auckland yesterday, will report to a meeting of strikers at Hikurangi to-morrow. The result is awaited with tense anxiety; as it is officially stated that if Wilson’s mine is left untended another week it will be impossible to replace the pumps and other plant which has been withdrawn, and render the mine derelict, besides jeopardising the contiguous mine of the Hikurangi company.