TWO SHEEP AN HOUR AT AORANGI WORKS
Company Posts Ultimata to Men RETURN TO NORMAL RATE OR “GO QUICK* Two sheep an hour was the order at the Follding freezing works yesterday—a situation which obviously cannot continue very much longer. Yesterday afternoon the following notice was posted up at the works by the company;— Owing to the /"go-slow” policy of the slaughtermen, who have g now reduced killing to two sheep per hour, the company has decided that unless satisfactory assnr- ■ finces that the slaughtermen at these works vrlll resume and continue killing at the normal, pace are given to the-management by 12 10-morroW (Wednesday), am more stock will be offered tm them for killing. In that event, the wages due to the slaughtermen will ho available at 12 noon to-morrow (Wednesday), and the company will put Into operation other arrangements to deal X with the slaughtering of stock, ' The Longbum works have not beeni affected by “go-slow” tactics, and a full board of butchers there is dls- ] posing of 2000 to\ 2500 sheep a day, the average daily rate being 100, | The works are still busy, although’ the heavy draftings of the past few weeks have eased up since the break* . lag of the drought i
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Manawatu Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 3249, 20 January 1926, Page 7
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