THE SHEARERS’ DISPUTE.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2107, 5 February 1908, Page 2

THE SHEARERS’ DISPUTE.

A PROBABLE SETTLEMENT. Press Association. PAi.AIERSTON, Feb. 4. A shearers :id sbeepowners conference was lie: i at the Oddfellows’ Hall here tli-o morning and 'afternoon, and the sitting altogether lasted about three and a half hours. It is understood -.hat- the decisions were give and take, some of the points resulting in loi ; discussion. It was decided that no information whatever should l a given to the press until the agr. aments come to have been consider • 1 by the shearers union executi e at Hunterville on Saturday nex;, aud the members of tho Farmers’ Union Provincial Executive who w; re absent. The “Alanawatu Daily ’Times.” Hawera, publishes an account of the proceedings and states tin r, the preference clause and the claus: . limiting learners, were struck out; while it was agreed that machine shea: mg should be 17s 6d, and hand she .• ring 20s per 100, the agreement to hold good for two | years. The Alanavatu Times, referring editorially to iho matter, states that | there is a goo:i reason to hope that a genuine settle .lent has been arrived at, as the' d. legates present repre- | seated a majo. icy of both executives, sufficient to ensure the endorsement of tho decisions they came to. All j the shearers’ delegates, except Alessrs Garrick and Baker, will be present at Hunterville, aud they would constitute a majority there, while all that will le done on the sheepowners’ side v. ill bo to communicate with absent members of the executive, inform them what was done at this meeting, and ask their acquiescence, a majority being already assured.