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Thames Star, Volume XXIII, Issue 7081, 13 January 1892, Page 2

■ Thjs more tbat was being made by certain up country people to have the pre.fereneeofwork'onttw £>roa«le Aroha section o* the railway giyen $o resident* of those localities baa, w.e .are glad to b* able to ataie, been defeated. Immediately we become awa?e of »be f»ot wo pointed out the manifest i: jaitiesa of the proceeding, with the result that iJie gsafctes was brought under t:u.i notice of the Hoa A* J. Cataaa by M*"]?eua, ibe indefatigable

President of the MinerB 1 Union, and» thanks to the intervention of tb.» boo gentleman, the unemployed of the Thames have been, placed on an equal footing with those of Paeroa and Te-Aroha in obtaining work on the line. The 1" bosses" of eight gangs of men, representing 95 workmen, left the Thames this morning with Mr Vickerman to arrange for the taking up of work on the co-operative principle, and the thanks of the community are certainly due to Mr Cadtnan for his timely inter vention on behalf o? the unemployed of the Thames, as but for this the railway work would most likely have all been taken op by up country residents.