BAGGING SHEEP.

Press, Volume LXV, Issue 19665, 8 July 1929, Page 11

BAGGING SHEEP.

SHEARERS MUST BE PAID. The Arbitration Court Jias delivered its opinion on the recently disputed point as to whether shearing includes the dagging of sheep. The Court holds that shearers cannot be required_ to dag sheep, as a separate operation, without extra payment, but that they must shear sheep that are brought on to the board, whether daggy or not. The question arose as the result of the dismissal of a shearer following an argument with tiro employer over dagging. There were about 2000 sheep to be shorn, and the worker who was dismissed claimed damages for breach of contract. In delivering its opinion, the Cou»t stated that the custom was to dag sheep requiring dagging before bringing them on to the shearing board, an operation generally performed by station employees. If the shearers were required to perform this operation as a separate job, previously to shearing, they were entitled to be paid for it. A dissenting opinion was given by Mr A. L. Monteith, the employees assessor on the Court, on the grounds that the weight of evidence at the hearing of the dispute showed that the custom to-day was not to put daggy sheep on the shearing board.