POSITION AT HUNTLY.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1604, 22 November 1912, Page 5

POSITION AT HUNTLY.

THE NEW UNION. AN ENTHUSIASTIC MEETING.' (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) . Auckland, November "21. '! .The' correspondent of an Auckland ■paper-telegraphs:—Everything is quiet at Huntly to-day. The Extended Mine has resumed work. The police are returning from Auckland, v Mr. Robertson, M.P. for Otaki, has been hers two or three times in conference with the local federationists. Ho left yesterday. Apparently the key of the position is with the new union. Applications are coming; in steadily for enrolment. - . Later. A most enthusiastic meeting of the Huntly Coal Mine Employees' Union of Workers' (registered under the: Concilia-tion-and Arbitration Act) was held this afternoon, the hour having to be changed to suit the organiser (Mr. Walsh) v At the meeting an executive was appointed as well ns permanent officials," a president, a a ■ secretary, a treasurer, and a committee of five. : The Secretary was asked to arrange for a conference with the- directors of the Taupiri mines in Auckland early next week with Mr. Harle Giles as chairman, the object being the formulation of an awnid in Feu of the one suspended. It wasreported that the site for an offico had been procured with the intention of building at once. . '■■';.■■ ■''■:., A largo number of policemen arrived in Huntly to-day, the number including several who were here before.) The town is perfectly quiet, and likely to remain SO. ■ v- ! .