THE WAIHI STRIKE.

Timaru Herald, Volume XCVI, Issue 14911, 2 December 1912, Page 7

THE WAIHI STRIKE.

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WELLINGTON. Oee. 'l. Mi- J. Glover .secretary of the Federation cA Labour- received on Saturday a te'logi-am from the officials of tlie <.rganisation in Auckland, announcing that the Waihi strike had bsen declared off. The strike was first declared on 15th May. 400 READY TO RETURN'. AUCKLAND, J.Vc 1. Mr Rhodes, of the Waihi lompauy. when interviewed yesterday said lie had been officially informed that th?-strike was off. Ho mentioned that a. list- of about four hundred workers .billing to return to Waihi had been hxnded to the mining company's. It would, he said, be certainly impossible to find work for them all or even one-rialf during the remainder of the year, nor until the water in the low levels had boon pumped out, but the Waih Company had made a promise to give preference during Iho next ten clays to married men with homes in Waihi, the .Company being of course free 1o chrrose from the list those married aen deemed to bo most suitable for the Company's requirement.

REEFTON BUSY AGAIN. ALL MISTERS EMPLOYED. REEFTON, Dec. 1. Contracts in' connection with the Consolidated Goldfields Company are going off daily. They have depleted the field of miners; every pnlcfeal miner in theloca lity has been engaged, and yesterday all the 17 known'miners "}. Rcelton got contracts. The S«Yw Big River wants miners for tunnel work, and there is a great demand for qualified miners. A little friction in regard to contract prices has been alJf.vod .and things are moving ot.iotly. Surface hands have not yet been taken on, but crushing is expected 10 be general next wook. There is a general revival of business in Reef ton. A small corner section in Broadway v--as submitted to anctio yesterday, and fetched £4Bo—a record for faimilnr sales for' soino years.