HUNTLY MINERS.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume IV, Issue 242, 26 September 1914, Page 3

HUNTLY MINERS.

ALLEGED MISI NDEALSTANDING 'Wellington. Sept. 25. In explanation of the resolution passed at a recent meeting al HiuUly requesting the president (Mr. >S. Dixon) anil the members of th- executive to resign, Mr. J. Robertson. M.P., informed a Times” representative iliat there had been a gnat deal of misapprehension of the facts. It appeals that the executive of Lite union was added to the luunily Town Board Committee to deal with the distribution of the relief funds. On the grounds Lhstc these men were not elected by the Miners" Union as it exists to-day. and were not therefore representative of th.- miners Mr. Robertson, in common with others, considered that the men should resign and submit themselves for re-election. It also transpires that jm'.ny fami ies would nut accept relief coming through Mr. Dixon. At the meeting, which was :i_ pubh.c mie. m.t a meeting of the Milters I nuiii. ihe r-sclui ii.m was carried bv secret ballot by 107 to .5. The fact ihat Messrs. Semple and Webb were •••resent wits only an incident, as the meeting was call'll before xf was know n that they wo’.ild be io Hunfly. He refiilefl ihe suggestion ilia! Messrs. Semple and Webb had any •xmneetion with the trouble at the Exteml-d Mine ov-r the n-w txmnage rat<