IN THE WAIKATO.

Maoriland Worker, Volume 2, Issue 23, 11 August 1911, Page 14

IN THE WAIKATO.

COMPENSATION/DUES. A meeting of the YVaikato Medical and Accident Society AA'as- held on July 27. The president (J. Fulton) .was in the chair. The membership is 520: Some time back there Avas a shortage of payment-"to those on the accident list- The committee appealed to the GoA-ernment Inspector -of Mines, Mr/ Bihnio, Avhich official stated "that it Avas quite -impossible to the money"- due OA'er unfortunate comrades and "'-.actually adA'ocated raising the money by levy on the workers. By pressure upon the Government . the committee 'has been successful- in regaining the compensation dues/amounting to £110, and the return of as high a sum as £7 to an individual case. Remarkable! An official Avho is paid to look after the interests of the people'by tlie people actually opposed to the paying of the meagre dues to the suffering AAorkers. And, by the AA-aA', he did not suggest i-aising the money by levy upon the company, avho reap the fruits of/the toilers'- labor. A Union meeting Avas held on August 1. J. Fulton presided. There is a groAving interest arising-in the meetings. May it continue! Organisation is our hope. It Avas ■■ decided to go on Avith the building of a Union Hall; seating accommodation to be for 750. The erection of such a hall as drafted and passed by the meeting -will adorn the environment of the Huntly AAorker. A set of recommendations 1 presented by the co-operative committee was endorsed and -will be brought forward at a public meeting to be held in the Masonic Hall on the 17th in.st. —BILLY BANJO;