SHEARERS’ CONFERENCE

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 8736, 19 May 1914, Page 7

SHEARERS’ CONFERENCE

iviA<)RrTiEaajJßEma.TiDNa>isCUSSEDt. ■AMAJ/iAMATIOKasOBOBALB. The Shearers’ Canferaaoo -was continued at the lownJttell Tho official - jßateocUy., states t Various xenrite including those in regard to'the question of Maori mem hem-heTngprepnesent-ed at the conference. Several speakers deairedto see th«( Maoris fully represented by Maori delegates elected m ±ho~same way M European delegates. It was UMnimonslyrnesohred that 1 the election of delegatee to- the oonfepenoe be conducted on the same principles m last year. The resolution, “That Meed: delegates should be -elected to the ooiKj forenoe each. year,, hut in tho-ewent.of \ no member of the native race being# elected, the esecutivo be granted] power to appoint a Maori delegate,”] was hold over for further diacoasioiv and at-o-laterstagooraseeantedi monsly, A oommittoewasßrt-xtpdo-awHaßrjiho rules and report to- the conference, and another committee to-drafc a schema for amalgamation with the Australian; Workers’ Union, and import, to the conference.

The secretary 'read WTrespondcnoe®*-, coived, including a telegram rom secretary of the Shoepowneru’ Federation, in reply to inquiry as to whether* or not the federation would accept an award made in one industrial district as a Dominion award. Tho telegram was os follows: —“ state* that ho will advise respective sheepowners’ unions to accept your suggestion, but be hod no power to competi them to do so.” 1 The question of organisms -expense* and salaries was discussed folly, the debate being interrupted by the ment. _______