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A SCARCITY OF SHEARERS.

TO fHB EDITOB. Sib,—l Lave been reading statements with regard to shearers being scarce, and, being a sJiearer myself, I take the opportunity of explaining why that is so. Very few farmers will take on learners during these late years. Most of the wealthiest, with big flocks especially, want to get their shearing done quickly, and would sooner wait for weeks for a. fast man than take a learner. It is the small farmer who suffers; he has to take whomever he can get. Another reason is the way shearers are treatd at different places. A man in the district a few days ago, who was shearing for a very wealthy farmer, told me that when the wet weather stopped them the rations were cut down, so that they preferred shearing wet sheep rather than go hungry. If this sort of thine goes on there will be no shearers at all in a few years' time. As I have given up shearing myself I hope the farmers will look the matter in a different light and keep the old shearers on the job and encourage the younger ones to learn.—l am, etc., Ex-Sheakeb. Maniototo, November 23.

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Otago Daily Times, Issue 19957, 26 November 1926, Page 10

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A SCARCITY OF SHEARERS. Otago Daily Times, Issue 19957, 26 November 1926, Page 10

A SCARCITY OF SHEARERS. Otago Daily Times, Issue 19957, 26 November 1926, Page 10

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