THE KISS OF SPRING.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 3636, 24 September 1912, Page 3

THE KISS OF SPRING.

WORK TO BE RESUMED AT WAIHI.

AN IMPORTANT STATEMENT

Bv Telegraph—Special CorresDondent. AUCKLAND, Sept. 23. Mr H. P. Parry (Superintendent of the AVaihi Company) has officially . announced in AVaihi to-day that the mine will be open for resumption or work on AA 7 edncsday, October 20. Mr Barry stated in an interview that'arrangements had been made for the mine to be open for all who chose to present- themselves to resume their former occupations. The contractors were formally advised that if they did not come forward on the day mentioned to take up their contracts, which wore- left unfinished at the time the strike was declared, the contracts would he cancelled accordingly, r J he position was, tilerefore, that the men had been given their warning and they had ail opportunity to come back to their work, otherwise it would be taken im by others." The offer. Mr Barry stated, would apply equally to men formerly engaged at day wages. ' The announcement that. tile nve months’ Sunday calm of AVaihi would be broken on Wednesday week by whistles and other proper, noises incidental to a mining town in a healthy state of activity has boon received quietly here. (Something of the sort has been daily expected since it was made clear that the police would remain until the trouble was over. * . The miners, of course, cannot in the nature of things give at once any indication of the attitude they will take up. The position is one for' the Federation to deal with and it is for the Federation to say what their next move will be. In any case it may he confidently stated that a good many miners will be prepared to go back to work if only —as one of them characteristically admitted in cross-examination during the strike prosecutions —“to get more monev for Christmas.” . It is expected that an official confirmation of the registration under the Arbitration Act of the Union formed by the free workers at AA aikino will he received to-day. AA lien that matter has been definitely fixed up discreetly silent miners hero who, nevertheless (like Thirkis) “are willin’ ” arc expected to show their hand and join the new union to the number of over fifty strong. A certain amount of preliminary work will, it is understood, be carried out at the Avaihi nn v ..- ro get tilings in readiness for “opening day. ’ At AVaikino the bulk of the laborwitli the Horahora electric transmission scheme, but others lirn e been employed overhauling the battery plant and it is extremely li.kolv that In- tomorrow everything will he in trim to get some of the stamps working. Strike pickets and laborers at AA aikino have been on perfectly friendly and even intimate terms since Saturday. and though a pugilistic outbreak between industrial opponents, did occur at a social at AVaitokauri the other evening the outbreak was purely individual and satisfactorily cleared the air as to who was the better man on that particular occasion. Offensive following has entirely ceased and the position at AVaikino has not been complicated as in AYailii Lv the tactics of over-zealous women.