YOUNG SHEARERS.
A NEW DIFFICULTY. The opinion was expressed by a Feilding district farmer, yesterday, that a clause in the award covering shearers calling for the payment of 4s a day to men not “found” when they were unable to work was cansing a difficulty in the way of young men learning shearing. When the larmer was faced with the possibility of having to pay the men 4s a day through wet weather lie naturally wished to have only high-class shearers engaged, for it would be more economical to undertake the liability of payment of such “standing down time” to a man capable of slieaiing 150 sheep a day than to a man able to do only 50 a day in liis first season on a shearing board. Another point holding back the normal training of shearers was contract shearing, where the farmer had only to supoly the sheep in a clean condition All yarding, shearing and pressing was done by the contractor and in Ins gangs he wanted none but high-class workmen capable of turning out big daily tallies consistently.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 302, 19 November 1938, Page 2
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181YOUNG SHEARERS. Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 302, 19 November 1938, Page 2
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