THE WAIHI STRIKE.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIV, Issue 34, 3 October 1912, Page 6

THE WAIHI STRIKE.

PEACEFUL PICKETING

WORKERS DRIVEN IN BRAKES

(Per Press Association.) Waibi, October 3

This morning large crowds again assembled opposite the Wailii Company’s No. 5 shaft. A new feature introduced was the batch of workers being conducted to the mine in a brake.

Union pickets in accordance with plans were stationed at various points giving access to the Wailii Company’s property, and in cases whore workers walked to work they were followed by non-workers and, women, breaking off when the boundary line of the company’s property was reached, whereas yesterday they went right up to the mine.

The brake was driven by a policeman right through the crowd, and proceeded to the mins almost before a hoot could be raised. The men from Waik-ino also arrived in a brake and the crowd was very bitter when, they found the number in the brake was greater than yesterday, and that they waved miniature Union Jacks.

As the brake proceeded there was much hooting and scre'eching. The crowd eventually dispersed.

OUR CADETS.

MAKING MARKSMEN

Mrs Godley’s plan for the encouragement of rifle shooting among, the boys of the Dominion is at once simple and practical, and the Christchurch ladies wlm met at the invitation of the Mayoress had no hesitation in giving it their support (says the Lyttelton Times). The money that is being collected by ladies’ committees in the various centres will be used to provide prizes for distribution among the Senior Cadets, thus helping to create a healthy , spirit of rivalry. Rifle shooting, it is scarcely necessary to say, is a fine sport and an essential factor in the efficiency of any defence system, and the boy who has learned to use firearms will not fail his country in hqr hour of need, even if his knowledge of drill is scanty. Incidentally jic will cease to bo a danger to himself ! and others when he goes shooting, as all boys will, since it is simple ignorance that brings about the painful tragedies that are recorded ail too frequently. Probably we will have to wait many years before we realise the Swiss, ideal of “every man a marksman,” but the scheme that has been devised by Mrs Godley will mark an important step towards that end.