BLUFF WATERSIDERS REWARDED.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXV, Issue LXV, 23 December 1913, Page 5

BLUFF WATERSIDERS REWARDED.

INVERCARGILL, Dec. 23 x A contingent of over a dozen ieurer sentatives of Otn<io and Southland •" dairy factories made a presentation" to Members of the Bluff Waterside Workera' Union. .Mr D. Ward, junr., who presided, said they were all aware that had not the Bluff men taken the stand they had things would have gone, very hard with the1 dairy farmers in South-, land. The result was that whenever, .-a ship arrived the farmers were aWe to get their produce away, and were thits. in a happier position than, those; ijrt. many of the provinces in the North. They wished to commend the loyalty of the Bluff men and their honorable conduct in adhering to their,, 'agreement. Various factories throughout Southland, together with the Wallace :A. and P. Association, had /subscribed | a sum of £148 7s 6d, which~h»vasked j the secretary of the-union,to -acce|xi> on behalf ■*$ •: the members ;of his Ttfiion. He suggested Jth^t tlie- sunv should! be divided' into three parts—-two-thirds to the married men and one-third to the single men. " ; : { -' Messrs Cameron (secretary)/.-:•, and White (president) returned thanks oil behaif of the .Bluff Watersidets 5 Union. BotWi; reJ4ried .to the unexpectedness aMa^bte-ivaWe of the donation^ and^said that the men .would accept the I?"*"1 the spirit in which it was given. TheBluff unionists had stayed at-wwk because they thought?it was their duty to honorably observe the agreement they had enteredTiuto under the Arbitration Court. ' ' :