ON THE WEST COAST.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 6 November 1913, Page 5

ON THE WEST COAST.

ALL MISERS OUT

A.SERIOUS OUTLOOK

-GREYMOUTH, Last Night. :> All the coal mines in the Grey; district are; now out, afe; quiet.; • > "•;.'"" '' i] . v *; r S" .'. ■'"'■:''>; ■ ■■ Tbe eleciric ■ dynamos are being kept running 7 ai Denhiston, chiefly on account of the hospital. . . The ropes at the„ Denniston. mine are being stripped of coal. The horses were brought down the hill yesterday, and the horses have also been taken out of other mines. The SeddojayiUe miners passed "th? usual resolution not to resume work until the Wellington and Huntly disputes are settled- ■■•«,''■ Unionist railway casual hands attend at the staiths front 8 a.m. to 10 a.m. daily to' discharge trucks inter the. coal bins to supply local orders. The sawmillem are becoming stoekW up with sawn timber. If the industrial trouble is not settled; this week, they will be compelled to shorten hands.

The local building; trade is dead, export being completely stopped. * The rumours that the -Westpoi-t Goal .Company will not start the coaj >'QJ.iipiit at the mines after Christmas, -whatever the result of the strike, appear unfounded. ; All the plant, eic., w!Ti be overhauled. So. far'as the local management is aware, tlie be restarted at the very earliest opportunity. The strike committee informed the chairman of the Hospital Board th t the interests of the institutions wil! receive first consideration in the. matter of ai/y foodstuffs arriving.