WAIHI STRIKE
COAL ORDERS CANCELLED. HEAVY LOSS TO RAILWAY DEPARTMENT. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) AUCKLAND, Last Night. ''A tstap .whicfh may have an important (Hearing .upon the 1 situation created iby idle WajJhi strike, .is Hinder stood {<; have bcten, .taken by the Waik.ito Miners' Unison. It is stated that.tho Taupiri Coafl Mining Obmpany, from whom all supplies ,Me 'drawn by t : h« •mikiing companies aMd dealers in the goldfields township, yesterday ri>ceiv*' (3d la notification .firom t3ie "Union +<> the effect that it 'objected to the Company sending any more coal to ■Waihi for any ipui-pog'e while the strike remains unsettled. ' ■ • The daily output 'from tolie Taupiri 'ComDa'ny's mines is jfroin 1350 to 1400 tons, and- : the • average quantity .senl'by .rail to the Waihi minles is 200 tons daily, and to general consumers aihout 15 or SO tons .daily. As the ■mining ectmpani'e's have now suspended ihslx ordeai?;, and are taking no coal, .a isum totalling between £SO and £6O per jd'ay is thus ;bein>g Tost •hy 'flhe ißailway Department in the shape df freight payments.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/WAG19120517.2.19.16
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10638, 17 May 1912, Page 5
Word count
Tapeke kupu
174WAIHI STRIKE Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10638, 17 May 1912, Page 5
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Wairarapa Age. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in