EXTRA EDITION. HUNTLY MINE

Evening Post, Volume LXXXVIII, Issue 73, 23 September 1914, Page 8

EXTRA EDITION. HUNTLY MINE

— VICTIMS NUMBER FORTY-THREE THREE IN ONE FAMILY. (IT TELEORAPFI.— PItESS ASSOCIATION.) HUNTLY, This Day. The body of Thomas Berry, enginedriver, aged 29, 'was reco\ered from the Huntly mine this morning. So fa.r as is known, only one body, that of William Smith, a deputy, aged 60, married, is now below. John Jackson, aged 20, a clipper, single, one of the three injured men taken to Waikato Hospital, died this morning. Tho third man injured — Alfred Pcckhain, jun. —is making a, slow recovery. Young Jackson's death makes tho third victim in the Jackson family — father and two sons. Altogether forty bodice hsuve been recovered, two deaths have taken place in th« hospital, and one man is Btill entombec". The inquest on the Huntly victims opei> ed at midday before Mr. Rawson, S.M. Mr. P. Macassey, of the Crown Law Office, represents the Crown, and Mr. C. J. Tunks is present on behalf of the company. Professor Dixon is expected to give cvi' dence. TROUBLE WITH THE MINERS INCREASED PAY DEMANDED. HUNTLY, This Day. The Extended Mine, at which about 250 men are Usually employed, should have started work thiß morning, but the miners refused to rccommeuce operations unless they were granted an increase from 2a 5d to 3s per ton, as they declare the compulsory use of safety lamps will reduce their output, owing to the reduced volume of illumination compared with naked lights. The company offered an increase of one penny, but this the men refused. The shiftmen also demanded a rise from 11s +d to 12s 6d per day, and the truckers from 9s 8d to 10s 6d. A deadlock therefore exists. The Miners' Union held a meeting this morning and decided thait a deputation should approach the directors on the matter. Tho meeting also decided not to recommence work until all tho bodies had been recovered. MESSRS SEMPLE AND WEBB ATTEND A MEETING. # Later. It transpires that at a mooting of one hundred .members of the Huntly Miners' Union last night, at which Mr. Semple and Mr Webb were present, it was decided to request Mr. Stuart Dixon, tho president (who secured a verdict for' oho thousand pounds damages in the recent libel action against the Maoriland Worker), together with all the members of the executive to resign: