The Feilding Star. Oroua & Kiwitea Counties Gazette. Published Daily. WEDNESDAY. JUNE 10, 1896. JUST RELIABLE RESISTENCE.

Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 287, 10 June 1896, Page 2

The Feilding Star. Oroua & Kiwitea Counties Gazette. Published Daily. WEDNESDAY. JUNE 10, 1896. JUST RELIABLE RESISTENCE.

he miners in Reefton have found no reason to re overp leased with the new regime. When they were employed in claims owned- by companies, the directors of which were resident in the colony or even working side by side in thepsame mines, with the ; men^ they t .. Nad some voice in determining tbe amount which should be tbe recognised wage lor a fair day's work. Now that the largest c'ainus in , Retfton have become ••absorbed," and their atfaira managed by a Directorate in Loudon things have been changed a together. The wages have been reduced the wage earners have struck. The excuse made for the re* duction by the London Board is that as wages are 48s per week in Auckland and therefore the rate of 60s on the West Coast is , excessive. This is simple nonsense. A man can live in Auckland cheaper thau any other part of the colony and live well, while on the West Coast i the cost of living is higher than any other place where miners are employed in. New Zealand. There is no parallel between the places. As a rule we have no sympathy with either strikes or strikers, but in this instance our feelings are with the hard-working and "hardly treated West Coast miners. It is a surprise that the officials in ' New Zealand, nol>unconnected with the .Government, did not give better advice to the London Directors. , < .