CORRESPONDENCE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4614, 6 January 1894, Page 2

CORRESPONDENCE.

k\' ' \ The Shewing Difficulty at - ' Bowlmds, i lllli Macßae's Statement, * [To the Editor W.D.Timkßi] " ' Bra,—Having read and lieard a good ' ' doal lately regarding the shearer's j, strike at Bowlanda, I thought it ad- 1 I, visableto let the public know tha exact position of the case. To begin > r with, weeks ago • fourteen shearers >, \ - agreed with mysfilf and my wool. ut olasser to shear at Bowlands, work to . commence on.the 23rd November, - i number of them had shorn on the sta- !. tion on previous seasons, and knew J* that for theilast tenyears i the price, paid for; Bhearin&oM^^^Bfl| lands. Borne of the men a by myself what was to be the gontri^^^H i pricft this Beaaon, they replied 1 sjjme as thought- anything - more .of. it, n truated to them tutuiug^upv. " date fixed, viz., tha 23rd of 0 ber. Six only out of the .fourteen showed up,-when we fixed upon lion- , , ® day, the 27th of November, ,jto start. " Whea I read out tha agreement •. has been signed by BheEtrera last 16-years, .they informed me that r people were giving £l, and in some it oases 25s per 100. I atonceaaid a that I wasn't aware of it, but that .if they went • on,. and that / n they could name me six sheds in the r p North Wairarapa that were shearing over 5,000 sheep and paying £l, that it I would: also, pay them the £1 when ii thoy finished,, whioh they all deolined 1 to do and, left. I now leave it for others to judge whether they .were.in the right or not. I may add that from the time the above men spoke [J for,plaoes, that I refused places to 23 0 shearers that were prepared, to shear n for 175.6 d per, 100, being the d given in every.big shed from Tiraumea is to Kahumingi, including-Brancepeth ' l and Annedale where 17a 6d was the " price paid for big sheep and 16a 8d" for lambs, also Castle Point and 6 Manawa, in faot, Ido not know, of a 9 single big shed in the North Waira- ' 1 rapa where the sheep have .been ■ 0 dagged and £1 has beeu paid,. A a number of the smaller settlers have 1 always paid £l,lbis being the prioe I y 1-have paid on my own, property, I ? now think this is sufficient proof and 8 speaks for itself when I have git a ° full board of shearers, the greater " j j number of them being settlers iij the q district who know the ina of ; j - thewholecase, who caihe to . I t shear for the 17s 6d, .Eegardjng th<! j 8 man Caasidy who gave , his name to , I a paper as having deposited -a I y with me I give the statement a .flan I it contradiction, as no one of that ijama I a has ever desposited a shilling with ;" " - J r me. There were only three men, who,' 1 strangers to me, deposited II Med for places. I handed their y '[ mpney to them before reading out'the J agreement to the other shearers -so ; " _ that they could please themselves j L whether they wont on or not, By ' > inserting the above you will oblige. 1 * . I am, eto.) i •' JoqnMaoßae, ! d V Manager, ■ I - Bowlands, dth January, 18D4. .. ; H Protest, I (the Editor Wairakapa Daily Times). m t Sin,—Can nothing be 1 prevent wholesalßsla^^jflMM^B lf Mikijßlrer thia aeason ? FofflMok^ two'miles of the river which other 1 J- Masons üßed to be the ; best part for \ " fishing is this season .quite cleaned 1 I out and not a fish left in 'it, by f poaohers who never use rod and. line, 1 but gaff and spear, and make' a boast a that they care neither for Banger or f" ; "S any one else, but will kill the fish when ■ 1 1 and how thoy liko. - I r I am, eto., ' T. 13. OHAHnER&AIN.