Shearing Rates
Sir, —Will the Government, in showing increasing attention- to prices, direct some attention to shearing rates? Last season North Canterbury shearers demanded from £7 to—in our case—£7 10s. board and meals provided in addition. Farmers had it good, and as most' shearers do from 125 sheep a day upwards, shearers have had it good dlso. For some years our shearers have earned well over £6O a week and keep. Today wool is down over 33 1-3 per cent.; in our case at the last sale just over 50 per cent. Today even £6 is a real burden. Would the Government, Federated Farmers or a spokesman for shearers care to comment? Farmers only want a fair deal.—Yours, etc., CORRIEDALE. North Canterbury. June 14, 1958.
[Mr A. C. Wright, chairman of the North Canterbury Federated Farmers iheat and wool section, said that the minimum shearing rates for the new season commencing July 1, 1958, as approved by the Arbitration Court on June 12, 1958, are as follows: by machine, £3 8s a 100 with rations; by hand, £4 Is 7d a 100 with rations: which represented a decrease of 9s and 10s lOd a LOO respectively on last seasons award.. As the above rates were minimum rates anything extra •was a matter for negotiation between the farmers and the shearers.]
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Press, Volume XCVII, Issue 28620, 24 June 1958, Page 8
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