MAORI V. EUROPEAN SHEARERS.
[To the Editor of the Daily Telegbaph.] Sib, —A correspondent through the medium of a recent Dumber of your paper aeks why Maori shearers seem to nearly monopolise the work in this district. Probably the chief reason for this is that the Maori shearers can be depended on to be on the spot when wanted; they live at their settlements, and do not leave the district. The European shearers generally have not been settled in the district, and could consequently not be depended on to return, or be on the ground at shearing time. I have employed about twenty Maori shearers (and chiefly the same men) for the last twenty-one years, and could hardly have got the work done otherwise. It seeme, however, to be well worth the attention of the young men in the now numerous small farm settlements. They might find many opportunities of learning to become ehearers, and thus to secure for themselves a great share of work that is well paid, and can always be looked forward to as a certainty in this district. —I am, &c, Sheep Farmer. September 23, 1282.
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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3502, 27 September 1882, Page 3
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