SHEARERS’ ACCOMMODATION.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume I, Issue 208, 19 August 1911, Page 8

SHEARERS’ ACCOMMODATION.

NEW LEGISLATION

The secretary of the Hastings Branch of the Farmers’ Union has received a copy of the Shearers’ Accommodation Amendment Act. Section 8 of the principal Act is repealed, and in lieu thereof a number of provisions for the proper and sufficient accommodation of shearers are inserted. All buildings provided by the employer for the accomodation of shearers shall be separate from the shearing shed, and shall be distant therefrom not less than 150 feet, nor less than 900 feet from any killing yard or piggery, or other building in which any operation of an offensive nature is carried on, or which contains offensive matter. Not less than 240 cubic feet of air space shall be allowed to each person sleeping in any such building ; ■a sufficient number of bunks shall be provided by the employer in each sleeping apartment or room for the accommodation of shearers, but in no case shall more than two bunks in height be allowed m any such room, and where females are employed, separate and sufficient accommodation and privacy shall be provided : a book of instructions on first aid to the injured and a proper and sufficiently supplied medicine chest shall be provided by every employer for the convenience of shearers .all medicine to be charged for at the nearest town rates, with the cost of ca’Ttnge added, and in case of accident, medicine to be supplied free by the employer; every employer shall, within three days after the day on which shearing has been commenced at his sited, post or cause to be delivered to the Inspector, at his official address, a notice that his buildings of accommodation j n all things comply with the provisions of tin's section.