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Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 100, 21 January 1918, Page 8

The South Canterbury Thrashing Mill Owners' Union has decided that nil thrashing shall be by the hour tl-is season. Prices are to be 425. 6d. per hour from tho stack and 455. from the stook. Award thrashing wages—ls. 3d. per hour, plus a 3d. wnr bonuswill be paid. When thrashing liy ibe hour time commences from ivhen the mill starts the first set on each farm, or from the time of starting in the morning, and continues during all the jiour.i worked, including time for fiiifting from stack to stack, and ten minutes in the morning and ten minutes in the afternoon for lunch, but does not include the additional five minutes allowed for each lunch or theoOminajo? allowed for dinner, or any time that the mill may bo stopped exceeding ten minutes for repairs or any other unavoidable causes or tiri occupied in shifting from farm to farm Where the millowner's waterman cannot tup. ply water in sufficient quantities to the mill, tho fanner i? expected to r.rranges for wiy additional supply reoiiirc.'d.