WAIHI.

Waikato Times, Issue 12445, 30 November 1912, Page 5

WAIHI.

END OF THE STRIKE.

CELEBRATING VICTORY.

PROMPT POLICE PROTECTION. TESTIMONIAL TO PREMIER. >.Per Press Association.) AUCKLAND, Saturday. A testimonial, signed by 894 residents of Waihi, has been presented to the Premier expressing the heartiest appreciation of the prompt and practical manner in which he responded to the appeal for police protection from the aggressive insults and threatening behaviour of the militant ' strikers. Its protection was given not an hour too soon, and that even now a peaceful life was utterly impossible without an adequate police force. 1

OFFICIALLY DECLARED ENDED. BY FEDERATION OF LABOR. AUCKLAND, Saturday. The Federation of Labor has officially declared the strike at an end.

WAIHI TRIUMPHANT. POLICE ENTERTAINED. BIGGEST BALL OF THE SEASON. (Per Press Association.) ' ty. WAIHI, Saturday. The most successful ball yet held in Waihi came off in the Academy Theatre last night, as a compliment to the police, upwards of a thousand attending, in appreciation of the services to the community during the late troubles. The Mayor, on behalf of the citizens, Mr Donaldson on behalf of various public bodies, and Mr Rudd, of the Workers' Unkra, spoke in eulogistic terms of the conduct of their guests, from the Commissioner to the rank and file, and complimented the Department of Justice on the splendid body of men, mentally, morally and "physically, whe composed the staff. A grand inarch was then formed, in which about 500 took part.