THE SHEARERS.

Wanganui Chronicle, Issue 12881, 7 April 1913, Page 2

THE SHEARERS.

There wr>s n deputation of Rnoaror* r.aMpd on Mr Afa«sey the other day. and rad oilite a n;>o talk, Mass'ov hns n cood way with deputations—the short >vay. No nnlarp.r. and no humhnc. Kp. lota them say what they want to cay,

and then gives his answer in a few we'Jchosen wmds:. These shearers vere irostly concerned to talk in derisiou ol the accommodation provided for them on some of the farms; and if all they .said was true —oh, tut, tut! If all they said was true, some of the true me' inos iiro very naughty men. For the shearers told of places where the shearers, ♦heir families, and tht; single fellow* — men, women, young girls, and childre'i —all have to ho in one or two lit-V«"» hovels, bundled indiscriminately together. This is a dreadful state •■{ things, especially for the single fellows and tho young girls, and I can only hope that tho shearers' spokesman exaggerated. If they didn't, I understand why some of tho shearers are so doggedly resolved to stick to their calling. They riean to grapple with this grievance to the- last. I suppose that- the truth is not far to seek. On come farms tho condirims, Through carelessness on somebody s part, have becoin« bad. The shsavrs as a. class are nut especially refined or over-cultivated, and it may be (for avght 1 know) that the sheep-farmers' are not expected to find accomin-"f;i-tion for women and young girls w ''rh tho shearing parties. However ;t bo, the matter is one that the pastora i;sis *<hoi:kl look into. There is no sonso in giving organized Labour reasonable .ground for complaint.