RESTAURANTS RE-OPENED.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1905, 13 November 1913, Page 9

RESTAURANTS RE-OPENED.

Auckland, November 12.

Tho leading restaurants and tearooms of tho. city, and most pi tho smaller ones, aic now open for business, so that tho inconvenience caused to people engaged in the city %'ottgh inability to obtain meals would appear to linvo ceased. Most of tho places are working with their ohl statfs._ Ono Qucon Street establishment which was advertised to reopen to-day, under police protection, did so without the slightest hitch, a number of special constables being within call in the case of disturbance. In fact, at the time of opening this morning, there wore about 30 men waiting without in tho hope of securing employment in tho kitchen. There was only ono vacancy, that of a formor pantryman, who had brought about his discharge* by the use of tho word "scab" towards some female members of tho staff. Ho Was among the unsuccessful applicants. It seems that most of tho waitresses have returned to work without protest. Indeed, some of them stato that they did not want to cease work at nil. On the whole, the rcoponed establishments have been doing normal business to-day.

"What is termed the "donkey-room" on tho Customhouse Quay breastwork, which has been used by strikers as their principal meeting-place, is now closed to them by order of tho Harbour Board. Yesterday morning, however, the room was opened for half-an-honr, in order to allow members of the union to remove personal effects left in the lockers. Tho memorandum of pretest against aspersions on tho Police Force, which was presented by tli'o special constables in Wellington to tho Minister of Justice was really, wo are informed, signed by 800 men, instead of 200, ass stated, 'l'ho actual signatures did not exceed 300, but tho cow maiirfm'n of several sijuadious skned for tho squadrons