SHEARING TROUBLE.

Press, Volume LX, Issue 18195, 4 October 1924, Page 11

SHEARING TROUBLE.

MEN ACCEPTING AWXRD RATES. There are no important developments to record respecting the position n» Canterbury in connexion with the threatened trouble witli shearers, Mr "W. H. Nicholson, secretary of the ! Shipowners' and Farmers' Federation, informed a reporter yesterday that quite a number of the members of tie Federation had engaged foil teams a» the award rate. Only a few ebejm the vicinity of the city .hare (teg*!* but later in the month there will pe ft bigger demand for shearers., .. . As indicating that shearing at 2M a hundred, with rations thrown in » is not such an- uninviting proposition aa is claimed in some quartern. t •.™", Nicholson submitted for inspection by a reporter yesterday the tally, book m respect of Inst season's shearing'' at a tvpical Canterbury high-country shea* The shed in question is no® one to reach which the shearer can leave, » train and find himself, at it; the shed is some considerable distance from to© ra.ilwftv. Ten shearers -were employed and were at tho shed twelve daya, one of whichwa-s a Sunday; they .lost some time waiting for sheep and on account of wet sheep, but, actually cut out »» ten days «uid a few hours. Th© tallies ranged'from 117 to 200 a day, ajid tlto was 171' a day a man, equal to £5 2s 9d a day a shearer. Mr Nicholson commented that even if they had lost 20 per cent, more time the shearers would have made very good money.