REEFTON GOLDFIELDS

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 10713, 2 December 1912, Page 5

REEFTON GOLDFIELDS

LABOUR MARKET BRISK

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REEFTON. Last Uipbt

Contracts'in connection with the Consolidated Cold Fields Company going off daily, have depleted the field of miners. Every .practi r\\ miner in Waiutu has been engaged, ,-ud yesterday all the 17 known :: !'iors in Reefton got contracts. The New Big River wants miners f or tunnel work. There is a great demand [or qualified miners. The little ' iciv'tu regarding contract prices has J eon .«■.,'- layed, and things aro moving quietly. Tbe surface bands have not b'.er taken on, but crushing is exovted to .be general next week. Theiv is a general revival of business in Reefton, and a small corner section ij. Broadway, submitted to auction yesterday, fetched £4BO, which'is a record for similar sales for some years.

Topic, Tree Lucerne, Heather, Lady Ruby, Wireless, Knmurala, Waiotaku, Divinia, Patronymic, Gazalie, Waitolye, Regained, St. Helena. Railway Welter, mile and a distance—Odessa 9.13, Ceylon 9.3, Cork 9, Ohahu 8.13. Matlow 8.13, Loch Mabin 8.13, Ngatimani 8.13,' Con-the-Shaughran 8 11, Kilosteri 8.10, S.m Pluie 8.10, Royal Marine, King Try 7.12, Composed 7.10,

EGMONT RACING CLUB

Tbe Egmont Racing Chip will bold its Summer meeting on Wednesday and Thursday, February sth and 6th,. when a To.a'ly good programme wi.l be put before the holiday racegoers of tbe Taranaki district. Tl*e mile and half race,; the Egmont Cup, has • a>stake 0f.500 sovereigns, and Uio Atkinson Memorial Stakes, of one inilo and a quarter, is worth 300 so vs. Tbe programme throughout is a very attractive one, and there seems "io doubt that the nominations wili handsomely reward the Club. The full programme is published elsewhere in this issue.