COAL MINE TROUBLES.
.hikuran'gi AND KIRIPAKA, *- - % •
.UNION - OFFICIAL'S DISMISSAL. | TELEGRAPH.,— correspondent.! Whangarei, Monday. TnorBLE is again simmering in local coal' mining circles, ami t-here are rumours that the employees of tho Northern Coal Comoany at both Hikurangi and Kiripaka intend to go out on strike next Thursday, llecently -a prominent union official employed at the Northern Coal Company's mine at Hikiirangi was dismissed, and it is said that- the miners demand his reinstatement. Tho president and secretary of thb Miners' Union left for Auckland to-day to confer with Mr. Scrapie and )he management of the Northern Coal Company. Seen prior to their departure, sie%- refused to give any information to Srcss representatives, but made no secret Sf the fact that labour troubles in local joal mining circles were brewing, ami Jiat interesting developments might be expected in the immediate future.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 14825, 31 October 1911, Page 7
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