LAMBS NOT BEING SHORN.
Maoriland Worker, Volume 1, Issue 2, 15 October 1910, Page 13
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LAMBS NOT BEING SHORN.
Air Pryor pointed out that, prior to the last aYA-ard, the custom was to pay 2s 6d less for Lambs than for sheep, and the effect of introducing one allround price had been, generally speaking, that lambs had not been shorn since the award came into operation. It Avas desirable, in the interests of both_ employers and Avorkers, that such conditions should be made as AAOuld encourage the shearing of lambs. For that reason the sheepoAvners asked for the proposed differentiation in price. In. regard to the difference between machine and blade shearing, returns would be placed before the Court slioaa-ing that the men were able to earn considerably more money Avith the machines than by hand shearing. This AA-as tho reason for the proposed differentiation. It might be said that, in making these proposals, tlie employers AA'ere reducing the rates agreed upon in the last Wellington award. That aYvard AA'as certainly the result of an agreement betAAeen the parties, but it AA'as unsatisfactory to a large portion of the employers. Although there AA'as a reduction in the Wellington district, it had to be remembered that the proposals of the employers meant a considerable increase throughout the rest of the dominion.. It would be shown- by reliable returns compiled that, taking a large number of sheep, 80 per cent or over had been shorn at 18s per hundred. Strangely enough, in one part of the AYellington district, 17s 6d was paid, and no difficulty was experienced in. getting shearers at that price. In Poverty Bay, and parts of the Auckland province, 17s and upAA-ards AA-as paid, but, AA-here the conditions required thathigher Avages should be given, 17s 6d and 18s Avere paid.
