SHEARERS REFUSE TERMS
REQUEST TO TRANSPORT WORKERS. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WANGANUI, Oct. 20. The largest meeting of shearers and shed hands ever held in Wanganui on October 17 passed a resolution not to accept less than the rates laid down bv the New Zealand Shearers’ Union, and to request various transport workers and organisations that sheep and wool from any sheds paying less than the fixed rates would be declared “black.” Also that the meeting should congratulate the Gisborne Maori gangs “on the splendid fight they are 'putting up for fair rates and decent conditions.’’
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Hawera Star, Volume LII, 20 October 1932, Page 7
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