SHEARERS' ACCOMMODATION.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XIII, Issue 4022, 27 January 1892, Page 2

SHEARERS' ACCOMMODATION.

-Insjsotlon of the Mastorton Shola,

An order has been issued by tho Police Department that the police officers in this distriot shall visit the various sheep stations and report upon the general accommodation pro* vided for shearers and labourers, This work is now being performed in the Mastcrton distriot by Constablo May, The information is being procured at the request of Mr Buick, H.H.R,, and.in the printed lorms 'supplied . there has to be filled in the name and „ locality ot the station, (he uameJ& the owner, the numberof shearers iIT- ' labourers employed, the number of buildings (houses, whares or huts), the number of rooms (with length, breadth and height), and the number of bunks in each room, with remarks upon ibo general condition of the accommodation, The object of such information is best known to the person at whose request it is being obtained. At any rate tho inspectors themselves are armed with no authority whatever. Thoy simply have an order from headquarters to gather the returns, and could be refused admission to everyWtion in thodistrict. So far, however, Constable May has met with no opposition, He has found that on the whole firsU class accommodation is provided for shearers and labourers on the respective stations, The' worst ease winch hascqrae under liis notice is one in which eighteen shearers have been accommodated in; a room 20ftx 20ft, and this he admits himself Ji Wealthy compared with, BteerflJ§'. accommodation in nearly the whole of the ocean steamers, ■'■'■'fy \m j]ad no complaint at all from shearora. about the- sleeping aceomoqodatipn, in fact eyerybody appears tQ be. satisfied. Certain cases have b§en brought under the notice of tho Con-< stable whero the "huts are nqt scrupulously clean, but this is tho result of carelessness on the part of shearers,.who, when leaving, throw their things about and have very little consideration for their successors, Mr Buiok, M.H.8., can rest satisfied that so far as the Wairarapa is con* cerned,the accommodation fpr shearers' - is good,