NORMAL CONDITIONS AT AUCKLAND.

Press, Volume XLIX, Issue 14839, 3 December 1913, Page 10

NORMAL CONDITIONS AT AUCKLAND.

THE HUNTLY MINES

(rKXSS ABSOCIATION TKUEOSAM.)

AUCKLAND, December 2

Work on the waterfront proceeds as if nothing had happened, and bnt for the fact that there are not sufficient seamen or firemen to man the coastal and inter-colonial boats, and that there is a shortage in the ranks of the more skilled and experienced carters, conditions would be just the same as at oidinary times. .

There has been no suggestion that the members of tho Seamen's Union in Auckland have yielded in!any particular from the attitude they originally took up with regard to the means employed to open the waterfront. The "great majority of the waterside workers who are members of the old union have been similarly firm,, but in the case of the latter, their places have for the.most part been filled; and many waterside workers aro therefore, so. far as the labour market is, concerned, in the ranks of the unemployed.

The signed by the manager of the- Tauniri mines, has been posted in conspicuous places "abont Huntly:— "Thb. directors have under consideration the question of working the company's mine, but until further arrangements for so doing have been completed,

no additional miners will be employed. Meanwhile written applications for employment for underground workers will be received by the manager."