CRUTCHING RATES
TROUBLE AT ORUI STATION
HIGHER PAY DEMANDED. WELL ABOVE MINIMUM FIXED BY AWARD. A practice adopted by some farmers in the Wairarapa of paying above the minimum rate of 6s 6d per 100 for crutching sheep has led to trouble at Orui, an East Coast station. It appears that a station which last year paid 8s per 100 for crutching, this year increased the rate to 9s. Other farmers paid 8s last year but this year, when the crutchers started to work at Orui Station at 8s per 100 (after having received 9s ; elsewhere) on the second day demanded 9s per 100. Work continued that day at that rate as all the sheep were on hand, but the men were' discharged at the end of the second day, after the secretary of the Shearers’ Union had advised them that their action was wrong. A meeting of district farmers held at Orui decided that in future the maximum rate they would pay would be Bs' per 100. In the meantime, as this particular gang of crutchers, it is stated, refused to work under 9s per 100, the farmers concerned are getting other crutchers and assisting each other to do the work.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 April 1942, Page 2
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202CRUTCHING RATES Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 April 1942, Page 2
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