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Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume IV, Issue 209, 28 February 1873, Page 6

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MT. IDA MINEKS' ASSOCIATION. A largely attended meeting of miners was held at the Temperance Hall on Saturday evening last. Mr. Robebt Ross, the Chairman of the Provisional Committee, addressed the meeting. He said: As Chairman appointed by the Interim Committee, it now devolves upon me to state the action which has been taken by that Committee since their election. In doing this, as the matter is one of grave importance, I trust that you will hear my remarks with patience and forbearance ; after which I will call upon the Secretary to read the formal report of the Committee and the recommendations therein contained. The Interim Committee appointed at the public meeting of "Wednesday last, to consider and report upon the best and most desirable steps to be taken to promote the establishment of a Miners' Association for the Mount Ida district, lost no time in proceeding to the task which it had been allotted to them to perform, and met together on the following evening, when all the members were present with the exception of Messrs. Lennan and Brown. The Committee, after a lengthy discussion, arrived at the conclusions which are embodied in the report which will be presently submitted for the consideration of this meeting. In making their report, and in furnishing the recommendations which it contains, the Committee have been fully impressed with the conviction that union is strength, and that in union alone lies the power of the G-oldfields—their strength becoming but mere weakness when they are isolated the one from the other, and incapable of concerted or united action for the benefit of the whole. The fact of dissension in Naseby has been fully felt; while, on the other hand, the advantages which accompany united action have been clearly demonstrated by the result of the late Conference at Tuapeka, in which every other field, with the exception of Mount Ida, was represented by an accredited delegate. There are, in almost every G-oldfield, special circumstances to be provided for in any new G-oldfields Act which may hereafter become the law of the land, and it is solely by such field being duly represented by a delegate that the special requirements of all can be made known. Not only, in the opinion of the Committee, would the action of such a body as that which it is proposed to constitute, tend to the advantage of the mining interests, but, if well and carefully carried out, could not fail to make its voice heard in many other ways, and on many other subjects. The Association would, the Committee feel sure, act in perfect unison with the Corporation, and would use their best endeavors to obtain a repeal of many clauses of the present Waste Lands Act, which press heavily as well upon those desirous of settling upon the land and making the Colony their home as upon the miners themselves. It would, at the same time, be the duty of the Association to see that the funds of the Municipal body were not frittered away upon useless and unproductive works, or upon an unnecessary staff of paid officials. The question as to the existence or otherwise of a deep lead in the Main Grully has for years past been a very vexed question, and one which the Committee are of opinion should now be settled at once for aye or nay. This it would be quite within the province of the Miners' Association to discuss, and, if deemed practicable, to recommend to the consideration of the trading portion of the community, who, the Committee feel sure, would willingly lend a helping hand in providing funds for the solution of a problem so long undecided, and upon the success of which the interest of all classes is so intimately connected. There should be no large or even small jealousies between the miners and others, but all should work harmoniously and energetically together for the public weal. In making their report and submitting their recommendations, the Committee need hardly say that nothing in this world, however simple, can be accomplished without funds, be the amount however small. The Committee therefore propose that, before the election of the members of Committee for the present year, or for the election of the delegate who shall be entitled to sit at the next Conference of Miners, each person who shall be desirous of exercising the right of voting as a member of the Association shall, at the time of enrolling his name, pay to the funds of the Association a small sum to go towards covering current expenses —the amount being so small that it cannot be regarded as a tax or an impost. The miners of Naseby have, in times gone by, been liberal in the extreme to others. Now, let them for once be just and true to themselves, and support the present movement by their example and by every other means in their power. With these few prefatory remarks I now call upon the Secretary to read the report of the Committee, which it will be equally in the power of the meeting to adopt or discard. BEPOKT. Tour Committee beg to report that, at a

public meeting held in the Victoria Hall, on Wednesday evening last, 19th February, Mr. John Bremner in the chair, Mr. Armstrong, one of the members for the district, amongst other things, urged upon the miners the importance of at once forming themselves into an Association. Hestatedthat Miners' Associations had been formed in nearly all the principal Q-oldfields towns in the Province, and that the fact of the town of JSTaseby being unrepresented at the late Conference, was looked upon both by the Government and the Press, as an exhibition of apathy and indifference, which, under the circumstances, ought not to exist. Afc that meeting, a resolution was passed unanimously :—" That it is desirable for the interest of the miners in this district to form immediately an Association ;" when the following persons were elected a Provisional Committee to organise the same: Messrs. Robert Eoss, John Creighton, ' Thomas Jackson, James Brown, John Lennan, James Hore, Creofge Clarke. The Committee met the following evening in the Water Works Company's office. Mr. Eoss in the Chair; Mr. Clarke, Secretary. All the members were present except Messrs. Lennan and Brown. After a lengthened discussion, it was resolved that the present meeting be advertised, and that the following recommendations.be made for the consideration and approval of this meeting. Ist. That a Miners Association be formed, to be called the " Mount Ida Miners' Association." 2nd. That a Committee to consist of nine persons (five to form a quorum) be elected at this meeting. 3rd. That each person joining the Association pay a fee of one shilling, which it is believed, will be sufficient at present to defray the necessary expenses. 4th. That a delegate be sent to the next Mining Conference, to be elected by members of the Association. Eobeet Eqss, Chairman.. G-eob&e Claeke, Secretary.The meeting then unanimously adopted the report. Mb. Eoss was again called, to the Chair, and the following Committee was appointed to hold office for the first year : Messrs. Eobert Eoss, John Creighton, John Green, William Moore, James Hore, H. B. M'lntosh,. Simon Hewitt, Thomas Jackson, G-eorge Clarke. After some discussion as to whether a President or Chairman should be elected by the members or by the Committee, it was resolved that the Committee elect their own Chairman. A vote of thanks to the Committee and Chairman brought to an end the .most succesful meeting that has yet taken place among the miners of Mount Ida, a, meeting, it is to be hoped, that will lead to practical results.