AN UNCANNY QUIETNEBB

Evening Post, Volume LXXXVI, Issue 100, 24 October 1913, Page 4

AN UNCANNY QUIETNEBB

QUESTION OF THE BALLOT. TELBGBAPH — PBESS ASSOCIATION.) \ AUCKLAND, 23rd October. The position at Huntly shows no change to-day, everything being extremely quiet. The men, who have a-1-read left Huntly— about a dozen or so — have obtained the permission of the Strike Committee. They are taking the opportunity to have a brief holiday in Auckland or elsewhere. The Union Committee has a. periodical roll-call y and is in touch with the movements of every member of the union. In connection with an offer made at a recent mass meeting that those who wished to have a ballot taken should band their names in to the Strike Committed, it is stated that up to midday nine names had been handed in. This is taken by the union to indicate that the men are quite satisfied with the action that has been taken. The outstanding characteristic of the strike is the almost uncanny quiet that has settled down, upon tfio township. The men wear a mask of indifference, which does not at all seem to bo assnmed. They have apparently settled down to wait, and there is no* feverish rush to organise amusements to wile away the tune.