INDUSTRIAL WAIHI.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 15155, 20 November 1912, Page 8

INDUSTRIAL WAIHI.

STARTING A SECOND SHIFT, /

UNWATERING THE MINES

EVERYTHING QUIET... '■■

[by telegraph.—OWK

Waihi, Tuesday.;'. % EvEUTTHESG has been quiet in Waihi to- M day and tho exodus of fedcrationigts hai-V practically ceased. -.-.. -. ,:.7v With the restoration of peace and ordar • the mining companies are receiving .num. V,. erous applications for employment. D Ur . : ing the past two days the Waihi Gold '; Mining Company has added fifteen/- ex * '■■;?' porienced miners to the underground «t«ffj nearly all of whom are local men. In cawsequence of tho number seeking work -ft & is practically certain that a start will b» made to work a second shift in the mine.'Already nine contracts for sloping or 8; -. have been let to various parties, and itAvis expected that four more parties will hi f'-k provided for by the end of the present i week. ~,

Both the Waihi and Grand Junction '• Companies' pumps are now busily employed in the nnwatering of the field lie•' r low the 1000 ft level, and good progress un! being made. J Qx-

Last evening two mounted constables ic« ■ ' companied the worker who reported hiv-.A ing boon shot at between Katikati 'hi Athenree, whilst on his way to Waihi totheecene of the alleged shooting, butoosld. ."■ find no trace of the Supposed assailant, «c hi anything to support the story told. They ; ? aro inclined to think that the man was ;. ; frightened by shots fired in the vicinity rather than that he was directly fired at.. ; '•'-, Mr. Robertson, M.P. for Otaki, is jjj •; Waihi, and is investigating the various &[*' legations of tho federationists relative to?-,; their treatment at tho hands of tho ar.bitrationists. He reports having heard sonia ~.!'' bloodcurdling stories, and is anxious:to ;( thoroughly acquaint himself with the facta '.;,■; of the case whether for or against 8» ; ; , federationists. ■ • '■ Si