HUNTLY COAL MINES IDLE

Waikato Times, Volume 92, Issue 14363, 14 May 1920, Page 5

HUNTLY COAL MINES IDLE

COMPLAINT OF NO TRUCKS. MINERS WIRE PREMIER. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) HUNTLV, Thursday. There is no work at the Tanpiri mines to-day. no trucks being available. The. union is wiring to Mr Massey, Minister of Railways. PLENTY OF TRUCKS AVAILABLE. TO SHIFT FULL DAY’S HEWING. AUCKLAND - , Thursday. The head office of the Taupiri Com-, pany confirmed Hie statement that the i mines were idle, adding" that the miners I refused to go to work on Hie ground j that there were not enough railway | trucks on the spot to remove the full j clay's output. The output for a day . requires from 170 to ISO six-ton wag- j gons to shift it, and this morning there • were only enougli trucks on hand to keep the mines going till mid-day. The men declined to start work, contending , that it was not worthwhile to go down for half a day, although trucks were . then waiting on the siding which would j have taken a full half-day’s supply. | The railway traffic authorities in I Auckland, in answer to inquiries, stated that’thero were 08 trucks ready at the , mines this morning, and that a sufficient, ] number for a full day’s output, of coal < would have been available before the ' afternoon. It was pointed out that Hie | railway authorities had difficulties of , their own in keeping up the waggon supply for all purposes, hut they had always made special efforts to feed (he I coal mines with trucks, and that, loday, as on the last occasion, the trucks were there for lire coal as it readied the hoppers.