HIKURANGI'S IDLE MINERS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19389, 26 July 1926, Page 11

HIKURANGI'S IDLE MINERS.

ASSISTANCE FOR FAMILIES

SWIMMING BATH CONSTRUCTION. [3Y TELEGRAPH. —OWN CORRESPONDENT.] WRANG-AREI, Saturday. For no fault on their part about 159 miners were thrown out of work when the Hikurangi Coal Company's mine was flooded. Remedial measures have been delayed owing to the non-arrival of essential machinery and it is probable that when it does come to hand it will be fully a month before mining operations can be resumed. Meanwhile a section of the unemployed have been' given work on road construction in the Mangakahia. Some to whom this labour was offered did not take it. They were evidently able to carry on without bothering about a job to coyer the unavoidable interim before mining proper is resumed. There are others, however, to whom the cessation has meant that families have been reduced to circumstances of acute distress and the outcome is that a deputation has engage in a canvass for their relief. Most of hose chieflv affected are people who nvea and worked in the de v elopmentoftho s'coiid x£ &> t r»"S offered by public works to ea.n a I»vwk rftWtUm thrown mt of work wiH be able to earn a living by wog«B »f excavating the swimming katha at Hikuianri the Governments pays over prompflv the promised snbsidy on th« amount rawed by tmd effort.