SHEARING CONTRACTS
RATE SOUGHT TOO HIGH HAWKE'S BAY OPINION \ [by telegraph—own con it kspondknt] HASTINGS, Monday The opinion that unless there is a considerable reduction in the rate of £3 18s a hundred proposed by shearing contractors very little shearing work would be carried out during the coming season by contract, was expressed this morning by several sheepfarmers. "Unless it epines down to nearer £3, according to conditions of work and the term of the contract, then I can see little if any shearing being done by contract this season," said one farmer.
Another farmer pointed out that it was almost impossible for one contract price to be established and to operate equitably over any one large district. He pointed out that there were widely different classes of sheep requiring to be shorn. Dates for shearing varied, and there were real differences in weather, and the size and locality of shearing sheds. These and many other points, he said, all had an important bearing on the average daily and weekly output of the individual shearer and a shearing gang.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22839, 21 September 1937, Page 8
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