Wau Strike "Still Going

ON"

Prom Our Own Correspondent WAU, July 4. /''kRIGINALLY, 104 European employees U of New Guinea Goldfields Ltd. went on strike. Up to this day, 44 have resumed work, 5 have applied for re sumption but have not been placed; 31 have left the Territory; 7 are working elsewhere, and 17 remain to be officially listed as strikers.

We understand that Mr. Arthur Blake ley, senior Commonwealth arbitration inspector, formerly a Federal Minister is being sent here by Canberra to inquire mto the miners’ working conditions. it 17 remaining unemployed out of 104 constitute a strike, then the strike here can be described as still going on. description of the extraordinary political situation created by this strike is contained in an article on page 20. . M T iss E - Steel, returned to New Zealand m June after completing a term of ser mentWlth the Samoan Education Depart-