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Dominion, Volume 20, Issue 79, 28 December 1926, Page 12

The increase in the payment of shearers has not made the farmers more disposed to overlook rough work on their sheep, and the Farmers’ Union heard n complaint from a member concerning a dispute he had become involved in witl) the Shearers’ Union (says the "Poverty Bay Herald”). Having warned 11 Maori shearer against roughness in the handling of sheep, this farmer later found a sheep dying in lhe pen, nnd received what he considered an unsatisfactory explanation from the employee as to why the accident was not reported. Subsequently he docked the value of the sheep from the pay of the shearer, on legal advice, but had been informed that the man’s union was going to fight him for the £l. on the grounds that he was entitled to discharge the shearer.. but not In deduct 11)0 amount from Ills wages. The mat'or was referred to the attention of the cheennwners’ Federation, as one affecting that body more particularly than the Farmers’ Union.

The snail’s speed limit is shout half a mile a week. . , , Th» area of Brazil approximately connls that of England. Pepper stored in London to-day is round about 16,000,0001 b.