SHEARING RATES FOR 1930

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1047, 11 August 1930, Page 11

SHEARING RATES FOR 1930

MINIMUM OF 25/- A 100 Although no definite advice has been received by the Gisborne and Coast Sheepfarmers’ Union, it is certain that a * 3- result of low prices for wool last season the minimum shearing rate of - >s a 100 will prevail this year, in accordance with the agreement reached between the Sheepowners’ and Shearers’ Unions about two years ago. This agreement stipulated that rates to be on a sliding scale according to the price of wool the previous season, the rates ranging from a mini™um of 25s a 100 on a basis of 12d to a lb for wool to 35s on the basis of -2d a lb. The agreement came into operation m 1928-29 after a comparatively good season for sheepowners, when the clip averaged 16.67 d a lb over the whole Dominion, giving shearing rates of 30s a 100. With the drop in the price of wool to 14.8 d a lb as the Dominion average, the shearing rates last season r 9ll to 27s 6d, which was the generally r ecognised rate in the Gisborne district before the agreement came into operation. If there were no minimum in the sliding scale, rates this season for shearing would be very low indeed, for the average price of wool in the DoiK° n * season was as low as 5.55 d * lb- However, the agreement was 0r a period of three years, and the h l -)*’ season will be the last in which * * operate unless employers and workers’ representatives agree to its continuation.