Meeting of Blacksmiths
(a correspondent.) A meeting of blacksmiths was held in Marton on Friday last, at which Mr Bowater presided. Twenty-three members of the craft were in attendance. The whole of these carry on business between the Wauganui and Oroua rivers. The object of the meeting was to arrange a satisfactory and uniform price for horse shoeing. After discussion it was unanimously agreed that six shillings for hacks is a fair price, and that notice to that effect be advertised in the Feilding Star and Marton Advocate. The meeting expressed sympathy with those tradesmen located in Marton who have been compelled to work at ruinously low prices (four shillings) by unfair competition on the part of one man. Those present strongly condemned such practices, and bouud themselves 'to assist those who are threatened until their oppressor be brought to a more Christian frame of mind.
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Feilding Star, Volume X, Issue 35, 16 October 1888, Page 3
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