WATER POWER REGULATIONS.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 542, 24 June 1909, Page 6

WATER POWER REGULATIONS.

.\ .: WESTLAND PROTESTS. , ; : . (By Telceraphl-PrcM Association.)' ; -1 • ' Hokitlka, Juno 23. Another; series .of-public mcotings to pr». rest against, tho 'regulations: fpr water-powoj were li,cld this evening.' At'Kaniori, n minina township, similar resolutions to those passed ; at-public; bieetmgs.here and at ltinm last week wero unanimously passe<l,: and strong exception was takeii. to , a statement of tho Minister for Mines as contained in a recent interviow, especially the portion where'tho Minister is alleged to have said. that'tlw . ' agitation ...for . concessions was, bdug' eugi-. i ncoi-cd: for political purposes, and that lie ia not taking it seriously. -Tlijo, meeting .'was • very;largcly attended. All tho speakers emphatically repudiated the. allegation. ' • Mr. Borkin (president of tlio Rimu' Millers' Association) attended the meeting.. aiid stated that tho association had met that evening ' passed a resolution'asking for a copy of tlio protest reported to bo sent from • tlie Rimu : miners, and il(at theV Minister for Minos' bo* ■ asked-to make a special effort' to ■ visit tFb district, ' and mnko himself persoiiallv acquainted with tho special conditions existinc lit the district, when he would find that thf ' alleged monopoly of a syndicate was : sheer nonsense."