LABOUR ITEMS.
Per Electric Telegraph— Copyright. Per Press Association. Sydney, January 12. The Southern Miners' Delegate Board deem the present an inopportune time to demand an advance m the hewing rate ; they therefore recommend that the lodges allow the question to remain m abeyance. As a result of the Ministerial inspection of the Labour settlement at Pit ■ Town and Wilberforce, the statements published as to the unsuitability of the p soil have been amply proved. Notwithstanding this the Minister is convinced that the men worked so industriously that they deserve a trial under better circumstances at the hands of State, so there is every probability of ' the settlements being removed to more suitable localities. The Melbourne Worker states that it is rumoured that the Queensland pastoralists have resolved to raise labourers' s wages to 30s a week ; and at the same time reduce the shearing rate to 17s per 100.
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Timaru Herald, Volume LVIII, Issue 1660, 14 January 1895, Page 2
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150LABOUR ITEMS. Timaru Herald, Volume LVIII, Issue 1660, 14 January 1895, Page 2
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