Last shearing season Mr Mercier con tinued his organising work, enrolling some 500 members, ihe bad accommo dation for shearers was brought promi nently under the notice of the Govern ment, and it is principally due to Mr Mercier's agitation that a great deal »f the bad accommodation in the North Island' has been rectified. One of the most successful features of Mr Mercier's third year's organising tour is the organ ising of theunski led workers of Welling ton, and the £prmat ion of a local branch The roil of membership up to the present is very creditab!e~lso—and before the New Year it should be fully 600.,

Mr Mercieris a prominent member of the Anti Chinese League. Women's Democratic Union, Eights Hours' Com mittee, Seamen's Union, and ha,s twice represented branches as delegate at the annual Conference of the New Zealand Workers' Union. This is his third sac* cessive year as organiser. He has re ceived communications from Auckland, Lyttelton, andDunedin, to form branches which no doubt will be attended to in the cour^oftime. '

OUR GOLDFIELDS.
WAITEKAURI.
Daring the four weeks ending Novem ber 9th 158 tons of ore were crashed* from tbe Golden Cross section only of the Waitekauri mine, for a yield of £775 17s Id worth of bullion, the average being a slight fraction over £418 a 2Jd per ton. Last month the yield was £723 from 136 tons treated, and the previous month £749 from 129 tons.
MINE MANAGERS' REPORTS

MOANATAIRI EXTENDED.
