SUPPLY OFSHEARERS

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2635, 4 December 1915, Page 8

SUPPLY OFSHEARERS

NO, SHORTAGE ANTICIPATED. "There js'ho shortage of 'niacliitiesliearers,' though, blade'jshearers are not . so plentiful," said. Mr. Cunningliam,-of the SheejDfarmers' Labour Exchange, to a. "Lyt/fcelt-on Times" reporter on Tuesday. : "We have not been 'stuck so far, and if tlie weather keeps fine there .will .be-no shortage. , .It all depends on the ■ .weather." ,\ • - ■ "But" is there not a shortage in other ' parts?" Mr. Cunningham was asked. '.'I think they; are making the most of. it," was the reply. "Canterbury ' shearers who had gone to the North Island have returned. There has been ! a good deal of broken weather there, and prospects are better in Canterbury. . ; Up to: date, we have been able to fill all orders, straight away." • "There is no apparent shortago of i farm workers," continued Mr. Cunningham. ''"'Good ploughmen are not eas-ily-procurable, but tho.ro will be plenty' . , of men for thg harvest, and I ao not think we mil have to call on the schoolboys." ■i . ■ ~ v Mr. E.: J. Howard, when approached' ; about' the same matter, 'was also of the. "opinion"; that - the .'sheds ', would .not hd;.' ; . sort.of.; shearers,l : -,"lf there is '.; any' .". shortage in the • North Island,"' he said, "it . will be iri those districts which i i have been, left to the Maori shearers."