STRIKE DISORDERS

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2144, 9 May 1914, Page 5

STRIKE DISORDERS

———O 7,' 60^EI?NilE^:T<AWieS'-AP- - ; pkoved:• ...Two New Zealanders' \vho returned ,from. Australia recently , remarked in a conversation with a Dominion reporter yesterday on' the (interest taken in Australia in our recent strike here, and , more especially; in , tho way it was' ended. Mr. G. L. H. Cuningham, once a well-known business'man in-Wellington, came back yesterday from a 1 trip to, New South AVales. "The-feeling among tho great majority of people _ there,' F he said, "is one of very high appreciation of the manner in which the Massey Government handled 'that' -strike. . -Many business men said to me that the prompt handling of jthe disorder made -it possiblo to float tho big loan of four . and a half millions at 4 per cent., and at. a premium ,of ton shillings.' ,'fhis opinion is generally expressed both in , New South Wales and Victoria." Mr. J. Darling, manager of the Kelburne Tramway Company,! who returned from a_ trip to Sydney this week, re-' ; Ports having;had a similar experience. Nearly everybody I met," he said, "in- •• quired about our strike here, and they all expressed admiration of the effective way in which it was dealt with bv 't>ur authorities." '