SHEARERS AND SHEEPOWNERS.

Evening Post, Volume LXXV, Issue 30, 5 February 1908, Page 11

SHEARERS AND SHEEPOWNERS.

THE CONFERENCE AT PALMERSTON. [BT TELEGRAPH — PBK3S ASSOCIATION.] PALMKRSTON, 4th February. The shearers and sheep ownnrs' conference lasted about three and a half hours. Jt is understood that the decisions were of a give and take character. It was decided that no information whntover fhoukl bo given to tho prota until tho agreements como to had bceu considered by tho Shearer*' Union Executive, at Huntervilie oa Saturday next and tho me inborn of the Ftinr.ers' Union Provincial Executive, wUo wore absent. Tho MajaaTvat-u Daily T.mos publishes aii account ot t!>e procserhngs and the decisions. It rtatcß that rhe j)r&ferenoe c!au-o s.nd tho clause limiting learners Here btrnck out. It v,'a<> agrood that mnohine shearing should bo 17b bd and h^nd shearing 20s por 100. Tho agrcemont is lo hold ijood for two years. Tho Timoe further ttaiea that thorn i-, good reawn to hope that a, genuine eettlement has boon arrived at as the delaptes present reprcFentsd a majority of both executives, sufficient to ensure the endorsement of the derisions they came to. All the ehnarers' dalugafce* except liios--rs Garrick and Baker will bo preterit at Hunterville, and they \rili constitute a majority there, while all that will bo dono on tho t-heop owners side will be to communicate with absent member? of the executive what was done at this meeting, end ack tin-Mr acquiescence, a, majority being already assured.