AFFAIRS AT REEFTON

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10675, 3 July 1912, Page 5

AFFAIRS AT REEFTON

MitilNG ACTIVITY.

{By Telegraph—Press Association.}

REEFTOiN, Larat Night. The Inangahu* Times reports' that about 185 men '.ire in receipt of strike pay. Things are very quiet. -Except for the Consolidated Group, mining operations are very ,tctive in- the Cum-'b-erland mines. A new syndicate is operating in. the Mprrijigs districts, and k controlling tlie -industry. The Gallant Scoria, ilie Sir Francis 'Drake M.nd o'tlu'i* anines aro more or leas'i ayi able doi-rhiig the past year's working. The owners are making determined effects to exploit them anew. All the old tunnels have :beien cleaned'out, nud •the syndicate 3ias hired an engine to ■pump the water from the Gallant and the Smtii jshtaifta, and .will soon be put In ccanimcr.Eikni. The cleaning out of the old tunnels has opened up several new (blocks of stone. The local "Keop it Dank" mino is said to be on good stone-,, nnd results at the new "Big River" mine are mesfc encouraging. Local private dredges l are doing well, rimd everywhere but at the .Consolidated Mines group there is activity. Busings?,, however, is restricted badly' in town, and the firms are filler tuning 'hands oil round. Numbers of yc-lMiig ITAMI hay« left for fresh '