HAWKE'S BAY BUTCHERS IMPROVE.

Colonist, Volume LV, Issue 13646, 11 February 1913, Page 6

HAWKE'S BAY BUTCHERS IMPROVE.

FTRM'S LIBERAL ACTION

Hastings, Feb. 10

The butchers manning tho board at Tomoana i>ut through 1000 sheep on (f'rida.y, and 450 for the, half day on Saturday. Thirteen butchers are slaughtering at Pakipaki, and applications for boobs continue to come in freely. ilSver.y day sees a marked improvement. X/n appreciation of the stand taken up iby the liawke's Bay Freezing Workis 'Industrial Uhipii of Workers in connec;ck>tt vzitl) tliG-strike,'Nelson 'Bros., Ltd. <Tomoaaut) Thos; Borthvvick and Sons, MM.. (Pakipaki), and the North British CfcVeezing Co." (Napiei-)': have decided to adopt fcljo. pii'y provided for in the award jr*»w p'porating.c't Gisborne.. This decision, which was cdnyeyed to tho secretary of tlio Hawke's Bay Uni6n.by Mr. jW. Nolson, managing director of Nol©oa Bros., anoioxints. to an 'increase in wagos of 10 per cent to all members of tliA.iinion, cn'd will affect about 200 empioyoGa 'it Tpmoaiia, yhd 150: between 'fcfae Pakipaki works and -the, works at the Port. The now rat? of pay will como into force; as'from./Monday-next,' fout the other provisions of the present fi\v&r& will be adhered to till 'the agree.mrK'nfe expires in 1914. : '■■.'_. .