The Farm.
SHEARERS’ CHEQUES. A special correspondent of the Brisbane Courier Avho has been travelling through Western Queensland has heard from the Western hotelkeepers that shearers’ cheques have been less plentiful than usual this year. The younger men especially have shown a disposition to save their money, which is deemed quite repugnant to the traditions and customs of the shearing profession. The more charitably disposed accept the new economy as an encouraging development of pastoral life, averring that the men are becoming more desirous of establishing homes of their own. . A rather sinister construction is, however, placed on the shearers’ conduct by some experienced bush residents, who declare that the money which formerly went to the publican’s till is now remitted to the sweep and consultation promoters of great cities. The writer is quite unable to decide between this conflict of testimony, but there is universal agreement on one point—the shearers’ money is buying less grog this year than ever before.
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Southern Cross, Volume 1, Issue 42, 13 January 1894, Page 12
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161The Farm. Southern Cross, Volume 1, Issue 42, 13 January 1894, Page 12
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