A FULL BOARD

Evening Post, Volume LXXXV, Issue 30, 5 February 1913, Page 11

A FULL BOARD

POSITION IN HAWKES BAY. HASTINGS, 4th February. The Tomoana, works will reopen tomorrow. The firm' had no difficulty in obtaining free labour, and slaughtering v^ill be resumed with a full board. Those men who have come to the firm's assistance will be allowed to retain their hooks as long as they desire, and every reasonable opportunity will be allowed them to become expert slaughtermen. In the event of vacancies occurring on the boards the strikers will be allowed to go back to work should they feel inclined to do so. With reference to the remarks of one of .the strikers, reported in the Tribune, to the effect that the work done by inexperienced hands "might be satisfactory to the firms, but it was doubtful if the farmers would put up with it for vel-y long," etc., Messrs. Nelson Bros.' opinion is quite the reverse. They anticipate that the slaughtering work will be done very much better by the new boards of men than it has been for some time past. If it is worse, then it will be very bad indeed. With regard to the Pakipaki Freezing Works, no information was ascertainable to-day, but it is understood that, as yet, Messrs. Borthwick and Sons have notobtained a full board, and the works are Still closed. The iTreezers' Union are holding a meeting here to-night., NEUTtfAL ATTITUDE WANGANUJt, 4th February. The freezers are adopting neutral attitude. A number of men have already had their services dispensed with, and about 150 employees o"iitside of the butchers will be affected. APPLIbAfiONS FOR "HOOKS" AT TIMA&U • TIMARU, 4th February. Some applications for "hooks" at the local freezing works have 'been received. The number so far is not stated.