TRADES AND LABOUR.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 9547, 1 October 1892, Page 2

TRADES AND LABOUR.

At a largely attended meeting of the Duuediu Bootmakers' Union, oa Tuesday night.it was unanimously decided to confirm the action of the delegates who attended the meeting of the General Board of Conciliation at Wellington in accepting the first of the proposals submitted by the Manufacturers' Association. Messrs Nagle, Ferguson, and Arnold were appointed to attend the conference to be held in Chnstchurch iv a fortnight's time. T.T 1 4 iu, vke' s Bay runholder writing to the Herald states that owing to the unprecedented number of man tramping the country he has given notice to the Maoris he usually employs at shearing that ibis year he intends to employ Europeans if they arts competent shearers, and he suggests that his fellow runholdera should follow his example. He has no quarrel wifch his Maori shearers, but what with the rents ttT^ c- Ye w d ,th? ir •"dtivations, the Maoris, at least m Hawke's Bay, are far above the PnV „M "is herwise many Europeans, who possess little more than they SnKupr £: have wives and famii-