SELLING OF RAMS

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 65, 9 December 1937, Page 9

SELLING OF RAMS

Our Own Correspondent.)

Farmers' Union Favours Ring System

(From

WAIPUKURAU, Last Night. Mr G. L. Jamieson urged that an effort should be made to have all breeding rams sold through a ring instead of in pens as at present, when the problem of improving the quality of rams offered at xam f aixs was being discUssed by the Hawke's Bay .Provineial Executive of the, New Zealand Farmers' Union. at its meeting at "Waipukurau yesterday afternoon. It was decided to invitc representatives of the A. and. P? Association, the Southdown Sheep Society, the Romiiey March Sheep Society, and the Auctioneers' Association to attend a meeting in January to discuss the matter. | In reply to a request from the Dominion executive for commeijts on the proposed Freeing Workers' Award, the chairman, Mr C. R. Edgecombe, reported that he had forwarded the following letter to the Dominion executive. "I consider the 40-hour week to be impracticable. When the stock is ready it must be put through the works will all reasonable dispatch. Dry weather affects* rape ahd the various fattening crops and it is not eeonomical to have to hold fat stock, I see no Teason why there should be any increase in the rate of overtime. "I thmk that with the exception of the peak period, the additional five minute3 asked for, smoke-o' would not be a serious matter. The demands right through are, of course, , exeessive and I am sure our representatives will do ,all in their power to keep the costs down. Hawke's Bay in particular has various drought periods and anvthing further in the way of restriction would be a serious matter." The letter was approved.