A NEW AWARD
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FOR NS.WJHEARERS OF INTEREST TO NEW ZEALAND. (Received Last''Night, 9.20 o'clock.) SYDNEY, October 6. • Mr Justice Higgins has delivered an award in respect to flhe shearing dispute. The award fixes, the hours at not more t)han forty-eight per week. In regard to wet sheep, it provides that shear ere may legitimately refuse to shear if the majority of shearers on a secret ballot decide against shearing. The award also refuses preference to unionists for the present, but this decision will not affect any future application. The following minimum shearing rates were fixed :—Where rations are not found, flock sheep, 24s per 100; rams or ram stags, 4.85; ewes and their lambs, 30s. If rations found, ten shillings per week less than above. Hie rates for cooks 'were fixed at 50s; adult shepherds, 37s 6d; boys, 255, weekly with keep, and added overtime paid for at the rate of time and a half .for the first two hours, and double rates afterwards.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10443, 7 October 1911, Page 5
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171A NEW AWARD Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10443, 7 October 1911, Page 5
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