A SHORTAGE OF SHEARERS
DUNEDIN COMPLAINT.
DUNEDIN, Nov. 19
Farmers are still on the trail of the shearer. Never before has there been such, a dearth of labour in this particular sphere. It is difficult to say what has become of the shearers. Some farmers allege that they have downed their machines, or blades, in the endeavour to grasp an easier if less profitable livelihood undqr 'the fatherly eye of the Government. “1 should not like to say that,” said a labour exchange man this morning, when this theory was put to him. “It is certainly very difficult to obtain shearers, and it is hard also to find out exactly where they have disappeared to. My opinion is that the farmers themselves are. partly to blame for this state of affairs. They always want • nothing but the best, and in past years they have been so loath to allow learners to have a pen on their sheds that there are very few young shearers coming on. to replace the old hands, who ,cf course, cannot go on for ever.”
The speaker added that since the majority of the farmers in the south had reverted to the blades on account of the cold.. it was almost impossible to procure shearers for the few' sheds which still: used the machines; indeed, it was quite on the cards that a small number of machine shearers would have to be brought over from Australia. >
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Hokitika Guardian, 22 November 1929, Page 7
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240A SHORTAGE OF SHEARERS Hokitika Guardian, 22 November 1929, Page 7
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