PUKEMIRO STRIKE.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXVIII, Issue LXXVIII, 13 June 1919, Page 8

PUKEMIRO STRIKE.

STILL UNSETTLED

(BY TELEGKArH —PRESS ASSOCIATION.)

AUCKLAND, June 12

The strike at Pukemiro colliery continues. After a meeting of directors of tne company yesterday, Mr Harle Giles ■stated that he had sent the following telegram to the Minister of Mines: "The Company contends that the chief inspector has seen the working in dispute as now sealed off, and states that in his opinion the workmen's inspectors havo no right of admission to these workings. Is this so?" The Under-Secretary to the Mines Department replied that "the facts are that the Supreme Court has already decided that the old workings are not part of the mine and consequently are not required to be inspected. The management need not therefore direct the deputy or underviewer to inspect them unless danger is apprehended, and no one is allowed to enter -any part of the mirie that has not been previously inspected by the deputy^ so that the workmen's inspectors are excluded unless preceded by the deputy. If. howt ever, the Company directs- the deputy |to inspect them there is no objections Ito the workmen 1 s inspectors following I after he has renorted all safe."

Mr Giles is proceeding to Huntlv this evening: to interview the representatives of the Union to-morrow morning and put before them the proposals made by the company.