ACTIVITY AT WAIHI.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 15133, 25 October 1912, Page 8

ACTIVITY AT WAIHI.

OUTPUT, STILL INCING.' ELEVEN MORE MEN SIGN ON. ■FEEBLER DEMONSTRATIONS. ■ ; "i. ■'',■•' ; ■•■■-•:>,;';, ~".;-*..,:i_.; .■. >'-...'.'.'',:'..;..;;.■, . ~-. j {BY TEL2IOBAP3I.—OWX; .COKBESFOSDEKT.] j ' : ■ '; 1 . Waihi, Thursday. " Eleven, additional men were engaged by j mining companies this mornings nine of i the. number signing ;cm ■ with the Waahi Gold Mining Company, and the remaining two with the Grand Junction Company. :■ Of tire [employed by the . Waibi Company nd~:fewer than seven are practical miners, four of whom 'i oome ; from outside fields. OS the others two are local miners and the third a Huntly miner. /Several more : Wafti minora -have definitely j announced their w intention, of resuming ; work in %o cQurso of a day or two. Apart from members of the permanent staff, the ! Waihi Company has now: upwards of 100 J men working at Waikino and over 150 at WaihL \ During yesterday and to-day between j ; 800 and €00. tons of-'quarts were sent from i j Waihi to the Victoria battery at Waikino. i The membership of the Ohinemuri Bat. teries and Mine Employees* Union (under the^ Arbitration 1 Act) "is being ■V. steadily -: increased, quite a number of men haying joined during the past dam •-.'■.. j . The. strikers and ; : women demonstrated ; agaicsK the workers both morning and ; afternoon at the mine approaches, but the i j^i|^^^/;wereV small. The morning I demonstration : was decidedly feeble, there ! notr: being more than 15 or 20 'in v the I vicinity of the. mine' when the first brake with the workers arrived. At no time did -the assemblage 'exceed,from 60: to .70, the majority being men, most of whom simply looked oh "arid' had nothing to say. WANT OF COAL BEING PELT. .SHORTAGE AT TATJMARTJNUi; [By THiLEORAPH.— CORSESBONnEKT.] ' . TAtrHAWraroi, Thursday. ,' There is a great scarcity of coal in Tau-> marunui.'' : 'Dealers' are ; unable to'; obtain supplies, while lie Maoris are /'doing a good trade in selling firewood.