UNION NOTICE TO RESUME

Evening Post, Volume CXXXIV, Issue 65, 14 September 1942, Page 3

UNION NOTICE TO RESUME

(P.A.) AUCKLAND, This Day. The following notice was posted at Huntly yesterday in the main street near the Town Hall:— "Members of the Northern Miners' Union are advised that in the ballot taken on Friday the proposal for the continuation of the stoppage had failed to secure the required majority. The Northern Miners' Union states that all mines will be open for work on Monday and members are advised to resume work on that day, when a report will be given at the mines by executive members."

OBITUARY

MR. JOHN READ

Mr. John Read, a well-known figure in the Labour movement, died in Wellington today at the age of 68. Born in Clifton, a coal-mining village near Manchester, Mr. Read started work in a mine at the age of 12. With his wife he came to New Zealand in 1901, and i from then on interested himself in the industrial and political activities of the Labour movement. For some years he was secretary of the Wellington Engine Drivers' Union, later he became secretary to the Engine Drivers' Federation, and from 1917 until his retirement recently he was secretary of the Wellington Timber Workers' Union. For a number of years Mr. Read was

president of the Wellington Trades and Labour Council, of which he was a member at the time of his death. He was the council's representative on the Discharged Soldiers' Civil Re-establish-ment League for the district, and was recently appointed to the National Council of the league under its new constitution. He was secretary of the Wellington branch of the New Zealand Workers' Educational Association for some years, and for a considerable period represented the Wellington Trades Council on the Technical College Board of Governors. He had also been secretary of the Wellington Labour Representation Committee. Mr. Read was a member of the City Council for eighteen months. He was the Government nominee on the exhibition directorate, a member of the National Patriotic Fund Board, and he also took a keen interest in the Standards Institute. At the time of his death he was chairman of the Industrial Man-power Appeal Board No. 1, and of the Northland Patriotic Committee. He was appointed a Justice of the Peace in 1923, at the request of the Trades Council, He is survived by his wife, one daughter, and two grandchildren.