DISMANTLING MINES.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1899, 6 November 1913, Page 9

DISMANTLING MINES.

(Bj T«lesraDh.—Frees Aeeoctatlon.) V/estport, November 5. The electric dynamos are kept run/Sing' at Denniston, chicily on account of the hospital.. Tho ropes at tho Denniston mine are being stripped of tho ooal tubs. Tho horses were brought down the hill yesterday, .and the horses bavo also been taken out of the other mines. Tho Seddonvillo miners passed tho usual resolution not to reBume work until tho Wellington and Huntly disputes are settled. Unionist railway casual liands attend at tho 6taiths from 8 a.m. to 10 a.m. daily to discharge trucks into the coal bins to supply local orders. The sawmillers are.becoming stocked up with sawn timber. If tho industrial trouble is not • settled this week they will bo compelled to shorten hands. The local building trade is dead, export being completely stopped. Rumours that tho 'Westport Coal Company will not start the coal output at the mines until after ' Christmas, whatever tho result of the strike, appear unfounded. All plant, etc., will bo overhauled. So. far as tho local management is aware, the Initios will be restarted at the very

earliest opportunity. The Strike Committee informed tlio chairman of the Hospital Board that the interests of tlio institution will receive first consideration in tho matter of any foodstuffs arriving.

Westport, November 5. Westport presented a livelier appearance to-day\than has been customary sinco the strike, owing to tho arrival by the early train of 110 miners from Denniston. The object of their visit was to prevent the bunkering of tlio 8.3. Kaitoa, which was expected from Groyniouth. Tho vessel failed to put in an appearance, but s.s. Defender

from Hokitika with timber arrived on tho sccno for bunker coal to enable her to proceed to Lyttelton. A crowd gathered at tho staiths, and protested, and finally tho captain decided to tcavo for Wellington to lay iip the vessel, and ho got away all right late in tho evening. When the General Labourers' Union was holding a meeting word went round that tho Ivaitoa had arrived, and tho meeting quickly dissolved to assemble at tho waterfront. They found tho Defender returning, owing to stress of weather. These were tho only incidents of note of tho day. .