Carnarvon.

Manawatu Herald, 20 November 1894, Page 2

Carnarvon.

(from our own correspondent.)

has been most variable in this district during the past eoiiple 6f weeks. At one time high cold winds and then Sultry and hot vfifh oc£a|ionai[ showers. With all, hcm&xe/,§Lt hig\ been growing weather and the cropa * and graWare looking mi* :[ '* T

is in, f jail siing,ftt Gwjwym mhfa • r In looking into, the shedX.co\ul(J 'see 18 shearers hard at & who were keeping Mr BarrjjOtte Wodi clatftf, and hi 3 table men very, busy*, aa;w«H as the pickers up ; and,, Wf»#^^-JW, - the . ,absence< [ of; ,- JMfc v SjiQ^r« r , .Jjlf" * Langdon is ably and practically , managing . everything, ,. The^ s|^ :a ' they wer^ then. sHeanng |wflW. .'s!s,, high condition ans . tijrniag" . w/e^; cellenfc fleeces. Partof the ajfrfte* ; raent under which the shearers "in ' this shed are working) is r peouliftrt< It goes • on . to sjiy i—^ '^o alVf eitt-j ployeea (excjusive of the clerical and ■ dffice ; jtafij; wiping |or the $&m of » New Keaiilrid Bsfc^te .tfeif.', filnilt^-TiV '. Owing to the enforcenaenfr of $a'; ' Employers Liability Acts, the Coy? ' has found it necessary to effect an EmployerjSjjiability;Act Inenranoa r under the jsaid Acts cqvering em^f ployees tts aforesaidJltorking for U9 up tdthQ,aito.U#. of $80$.? , r 3se document goes, on to. the effect that fourjjeiice halfpetiny.in the M will \W deducted from all employees* wages > • working for the Coy. , and ; that ; I tiie benefit to be derived will be fuiQ, ■ : ! while disabled and up to. ; <£^ paid : ; to the employee's relatives if he gejt« killed, and further, if any of thei em* /; ployees meets with an accident 'Hot coming under the said Acts he wUI : get . haljf pay whjflef disabled an^l 'j^f -. ."; killed, his relatives will; get i£60 t This rule was to take effect, all ofer: a the Coy's properties in New Zealand, . from the beginning of! and the employees on the.Carnarvoo r/ Estate seem alii to havei gracefully submitted to.the newordie^ of tfcitfgtf jf '- iH though none of them to whom I have been speaking, look on the schema with much favour. Then one greaL. obj ectidn^i f is !- jthatf \xs , ilpd^csf] |^ft W lowetihg of wages, "and Vid naif tnaii it is compulsory. ? ' 'V. ' !

Politically speaking^ a good many think that th# 8 - t^oietnment might well have let it alone, as employers in this colony Jiave> always been •'[ ready to look after those who get disabled in theft.* employs- ■EtightMor wrong the working man, as a rule, looks on any -deduction; I * feia ] * wages Qgainatuccideht^'to-'Slibtrt of 1 robbery; : f and ; yet ; he ; cannot blame - his employer who has aright td 'pro*-? » ■■'■ teet himself. The source of the evil, if evil it be, lias with ihe* 1 ment who - has passed-' fflsa'sures which practically leads to the decreasmf6t^^es^^dthe?ftlilifi»#a recently passed 'fry*6ur*pV£ernal Government, militate^ them, in „. the eyes of a large , nunaber "of tiW } ° working classes,' Viz.," "The Land for Settlements Bill." The passing of this BHI-ha?3t raa.de mattyrfeuad*edg carry the^tsjyajsfjdnrij^tha^jfiifc few months. I have spoten to several of these men / who jtold me that they were right for plenty of Work were it not for- the passing of the above measure. Their employers ; told thenr that -theyn muit i'l stop improving their places ai the Government might take away their land any day and that they, might never gel cbmpensation for'the^fy- A proveinents. Now ! Ati^ 7 oil*' who/ I looks, into .the , matter impartiality must aamit that such : a Bilf'k'l'^hV above might be necessary" Ay^etfrß 3l^ hence, but certainly not now, when the Government can purchase land in any dis^rJQt.ui the.Oolony.^ftt less money than will iij£ve to be given for it under; the compijTs.ory BilL , „ Tte, church Iwis^ir r iri^ Sunday when fche'^VM^D'diilirTjni^^ Bulls preached. At the ena^l'th^ 1 ■ service he intimated that itisteftd'OP the sunday < school , which/ he, had been endeavouring to start he thought something more advanced - would suit the district better, viz., a bible class, and he invited all who could afclepd.. .to] meet . feito, ym rAe following WdWv eiMninPjSliilr Thomas McKenzie's house when the initiative steps woul* and afterwards the classes, would be held in the little ch/urohftyery.^uadayj jKi