HUNTLY.

Waikato Times, Volume XL, Issue 3258, 16 May 1893, Page 2

HUNTLY.

MuiiicAr- Association'.-The Committee of the Hnntly Miners Medical Association, which is composed of representatives of each mine, held their half-yearly meeting on Monday night for the purpose oi balancing etc., for tho half-year ending in April. After making provision fur the amount ennrantesd tho inodical olficor n balmice of £l9 remained with which 11 boßin the new term. Several of the miners here, who have mot with accidents while at work, sinc3 the beginning of last year have been unsuccessful in obtaining relief which they aro entitled to in terms of regulations under section 6!) of the" Coal Mines Act, 181)2." A fund named the Coal-Miners Relief Fund is provided by tho payment of a royalty of id per ton on brown coal and id per ton on bituminous coal, by coal mino owners, which is deposited quarterly in the Post-office Savings Bank to the credit of the Public Trustee. A workman who has been off a week.through an aceident.shall receive 10s per week after expiration of first, week, which shall continue as long as he is unable to work, and where a workman is permanently disabled he may be granted a fixed sum not exceeding £oo. Siuce the passing of the act a sum of about £7O has been paid in to tho above-named account by mineowners here, and it is a gross piece of injustice that any delay shuuld exist in applying such moneys to the purpose for which they are intended. Ono man here lost an eye through being struck with a piece of coal; tho company for which he was working planked down £2O to pay a surgeon who oporated on him, he was idle for 10 woeks, and though application has been made by him several times to the proper quarter, accompanied by a certificate from the Inspector of Mines, he is yot without any relief or assistance, which would have enabled Lim to refund his employers the £2O generously advanced by them. Several cases of a like nature liavo been brought under my notice, with an express desire to make them public. Such discreditable results of legislation, designed in the interests of a class who are engaged in a perilous nixupatbn reflects very unfavorably on someone connected with tho mines department. Possibly the fund is wholly absorbed in alfnrdiug relief to miners in the South Island,

A DISArroiNTBD BuitGUll-Messrs Friar, Davies, and Co.'s store was broken into this (.Monday) morning, about two o'clock, the burglar effecting an entrance through a back window. He was surprised, however, to find that tliero was some one already thoro, Consequently his stay was short, and his burglarious intentions nipped in the bud. His footprints wore distinctly marked tin the floor, he evidently tag in hi 3 stocking feet. Fortunately ho had not time to take anything, and there is, so far, nothing missed. It would seem to bo the act of someono who knew the run of tho premises, and it is a pity his exit was not accnloratnd by a chnrgo of rock salt in Ins notlior parts.