GREYMOUTH NOTES.
(Feom Our Own Correspondent.)
GRKYMOUTH, July 31. Coal is in keen demand, and orders arc plentiful, ensuring the local miners being kept fully employed for sonic time to come.
So far there is, I understand, no due to, tho perpetrators of the Otira robbery on Monday last, when Mr Watson's shop was entered and £9. stolen therefrom. • Next week tho ferat meeting of the AVesf Coast, Workers' Federation Is to be held in Greymouth, when the constitution will be drawn up and preliminary arrangements made. It is anticipated tliut every union but one on the West Coast will l:c represented.
Owing to Mr SecMon's urgent representations for an official report upon Toaroha, Mr M'Gowan (Minister of Mines) bits ordered Mr H. A. Gordon to proceed at once to Hokitika and communicate with the promoters. The scheme proposed is to use water-powor in connection with the mining scheme tit Back Creek and Seddon's Terrace.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 14281, 1 August 1908, Page 10
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