SHEARING RATES
INCREASE ASKED FOR HAWKE’S BAY REQUEST HIGHER WAR COSTS (.Special lo the Meraiil.) HASTINGS, last night. A request for an increase in shearing rates was made at a, meeting of Hawke’s Bay shearers and shearing contractors yesterday, and it was decided to ask the Government not to call up for service .any of the shearers until tlic season was over. The meeting was attended by Mr. Arthuf Cooke, general secretary of the New Zealand Workers’ Union, 'who said that a projected meeting between shearing contractors and the Farmers’ Union was cancelled because the sheep owners would not take part. That attitude, Mr. Cook said, was anything but helpful. A motion passed staled: “That this representative meeting of shearing contractors endeavour to establish a rate of £3 6s a hundred for the present season, and that an appeal be made to all contractors who already have made contracts below that rate to have adjustments made. This is urged in view of (a) increased costs of iiving since the last shearing season, and (b) the increase of practically one-third on last season’s Hawke’s Baywool in prices granted to growers.”
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20070, 17 October 1939, Page 10
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189SHEARING RATES Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20070, 17 October 1939, Page 10
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