SHEARING.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume V, Issue 422, 6 August 1880, Page 3

SHEARING.

I.* ■,s •. ~'l ■■ 'tj To the Editor of me' Mail * * Sir,—l understand that there was a meeting of sheep farmers lately, convened by Bonie of the Pigeon ; Bayites,for the purpose of reducing the price of shearing to 168 per 100. Now, anything more preposterous I have notlieard of. f It ia like a great many other actions of those wheise ideas are bo contracted through staying at home too much. It ib a wonder it was not done last season*, when wool wan, 6d per lb. and sheep about half the value tbey are now. Then there might have ■ been «om« slight reason for thinking of reducing the pribe ; fbut now, with wool at Is per lb., and the chance, of keeping it up, Z it ia simply ridiculous. ~ . : , If such a determination ia arrived at, it will drivejallithe shearers from here to the lowest price is 16s 8d per 100, and large sheds, with a good run to follow.jj'and the chance of making a. good cheque ; but here, where the flocks are small, and the sheep hard, I maintain that 20sjper 100 is riot out of the way, and hope the shearers will adhere to that figure, ii am.pleaßed to see that tlie Maoris have made a stand, add hope the pakehas will not be behind eto.',i ; '■ '. * / JUMBUCK. . '.:/.<: ' n'■ :■ v : ;; ■;. " .■