POVERTY BAY WORKS
POSITION SAT]SFACTOKY. (By Tel en ra pit. — V rc.ss A sxaeia tion.) " GISBORNE, Last Night. The Tokomaru Bay freezing works resumed work at 8 o'clock this morning, with free labour on the boards, including three natives, and by noon the natives had been increased to eleven. The management is quite satisfied and expects to .have a full board in the course of a day or two. There has been no trouble witli the strikers. The new men are killing at the rate of from seven to ten sheep per hour, which is considered satisfactory. At the Haiti -works no less than twenty-one men were working on the boards this afternoon, including learners, and more are expected to-morrow. rt is .stated that although a fair number of the sheep slaughtered on Monday wore rejected for freezing, the number to-day was very small, and M -H- the slaughtering was quite up to +1 >" standard of recent days, with the old. slaughtermen. The company expects to be turning out its usual output in about a, fortnight.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 5 February 1913, Page 5
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