HAWKE'S BAY WORKS IN FULL SWING.

Colonist, Volume LV, Issue 13644, 8 February 1913, Page 6

HAWKE'S BAY WORKS IN FULL SWING.

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( UNixiiiJ Pitiiss Association.]

Hastings, Feb. 7

There, is little fresh to report a« 'far. as the local works- are concerned..'.Work ivs pi-oceediug at a satisfactory rate, and tii'-> niAv: slaughtermen aro v . becoming mure-expert with tho knife, the result being-tJi;\ttt o tallies are- ■ improving daily.. Twelve men got through 200 'snoop'at Paldpaki'yesterday, and it was estimated* that 200 would bo put through again to-day. A minimum wage of 10s per day is being paid until tiie hum are .able.. u> record better tallies. Applications are <sti.ll coming;in trum all u,i>y the district.

Twonty-eifejht hooks were occupied at Tomoana ye-sterday, and work was continued at a very satisfactory pace. Thirty butchers were on the board this morning, including one or two who have boon t-op-notch-e-rs in their- time. Another of the strikers resumed work this morning. Most of the strikers have taken employment in the surrounding district at.harvesting, or any work they were able to obtain. They worn still confident that the companies would give

way. .in .-regard'to the .statement by Mr RoaTdou that the " Tedtu-ation was' in .negotiations with a large buyer in the North Island who was prepared to grant tb© men's full demands, a reporter was informed on the best authority that the works" in'.Ha\yke'» Bay have no such arrangement with any buyer as implied by Mr. Beardon, and that it k not the practice of the management of the works to acoopt contracts of that nattiro witihout n strike clause.