DOMINION NEWS.
SATES OF PAY FOR SHEAKEES. B{? Telegraph.—Press Association., Wellington, Last Night. As the result of the conference of representatives of New Zealand sneepowners and shearers, ;the former put forward the following rates of pay as suggested for an award: (1) That the 1917 award in regard to general conditions be continued for two or; three years. (2) That an addition of 2s (3d per hundred be paid on a fiat rate for shearing. (3) That an, addition of 5s per week, or •Id per hour, be paid to shed hands, pressors and other workers. Tha shearers' representatives accepted the rates for shearers, but objected to the rates for other workers and nonalteration of conditions. The matter is now to be referred to the unions by the men's representatives, and a similar course was agreed to by the sheepowners.
CARE OF SOLDIERS' GRAVES. ' Wellington, June 26. The soldiers' cemetery at Karori, where 150 soldiers, mostly victims of the epidemic, are buried, has now been graded and laid out in flower beds, grass, and paths. The work is that of the committee of the Women's National Reserve and the City Council. The Women's Committee is now raising funds for the erection of a lych gate and chapol, the latter to be for holding religions services and the erection of memorial tablets by relatives of New Zealand's fallen men on foreign fields who have no other epitaph, in their own country. The Government will erect the head stones and the women's committee is now urging it also to erect as a national memorial in the cemetery an altar stone of remembrance, and a cross of sacrifice. Guns captured from the enemy will also be placed in the cemetery. It is proposed that future burials in the cemetery be restricted to ex-mem-bers of the expeditionary force who served overseas. The whole idea is to make the cemetery an exact replica of the great British war cemeteries overseas, thus conveying a message to posterity of the sacrifice made in the cause of liberty by men of the period 1014-18. The graves are decorated weekly with floral tributes by the Girls' Club of the Women's National Reserve.
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Taranaki Daily News, 27 June 1919, Page 2
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363DOMINION NEWS. Taranaki Daily News, 27 June 1919, Page 2
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