THE POSITION AT WAIHI.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1481, 2 July 1912, Page 5

THE POSITION AT WAIHI.

EFFECT ON PROPERTY. (By Telesrapn—Prei» Association.) Waihi, July 1. Strike conditions continue much tho same. Full strike pay is being doled out to-day. Local property is Teported to be practically, unsaleable, and business people are starting to nogotiato for tho removal of their promises to other districts. . MEETINGS IN ■ AUCKLAND." Auckland, July 1. A meeting of Waihi minora ,in tho Opera Houto on Sunday was addressed by Messrs. Parry ami M'Lennan. A resolution Has passed, denying that they had left AVailn because tht-y were opposed to the strike, and pledging thenitelves to do all iu their power to ensure victory at \Vaihi and Reofton. There are about ninnty ex-Waihi miners employed in Auckland. Messrs. Parry and M'Lennan addressed a hrgo meeting of sympathisers with tho strike in the Opera House last night. 2lr. Jl'Lonnan said he estimated that nino or (en hundred men had already left Waihi out of a population of six thousand. A resolution was passed, expressing a bolief in the justice of the cause for which the miners wero fighting at E-eefton and Waihi, tho principles of bona-fide unionism, which were at stake, and pledging those present to give every assistance to ensuro a speedy victory.

1 fleefton, July 1, The Consolidated Company, with the aid of a number of shift fx>sses and a staff of the Survey Office, endeavoured to work tho Energetic mine to-day. Four sliift bosses -.would not go on. A shift boss with certificates took the engines.At noon all hands employed on the -Energetic ,and Wealth of Nations battery then wont off duty, arriving at Reefton n! 1 p.m. The men aro very reticent. It is understood that the company are endeavouring to work tho mines. Tho names of the sliifi, bosses and staff, have b«yn painted up o?i Black's Point Road ns •''scabs."