Wairarapa Age MORNING DAILY. WEDNESDAY, OCT. 12, 1910. THE SHEARERS' AWARD.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10117, 12 October 1910, Page 4

Wairarapa Age MORNING DAILY. WEDNESDAY, OCT. 12, 1910. THE SHEARERS' AWARD.

The schedule of the shearers' award, which has just been printed, is not a very formidable document, or one calculated to seriously disturb the industrial peace of the Dominion. With the exception of the small matter regarding the wage to be paid, to wit, the sum of sixpence per 100 sheep, as between machine and handshorn sheep, and the reduction of one and sixpence per 100 lambs, there is nothing very abnormal in the conditions as compared with the ■provisions under which employer and employee have worked amicably in the ISorth Island during the past three years. From news to hand it would appear that most of the sheds are engaging hands at 20s. per hundred, though some few are not inclined to pay that figure for lambs, which may result in a number not being shorn. Such a proceeding may or may not he a wise one, for it must be borne in mind that it is a question to which there are two sides. Unless the unshorn lambs arc kept under exceptionally good conditions the amount of dagging, the loss of wool, and the heavy death-' rate which will ensue will far outbalance the extra cost, of shearing. It is on the cards that shearers may be scarce, for a time, or until some of the sheds whic hare starting early and simultaneously are cut out.