RULES AND REGULATIONS FOR WOOL-SHEARERS.

Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 530, 12 October 1875, Page 2

RULES AND REGULATIONS FOR WOOL-SHEARERS.

Thb following draft of the rules used in tome of the leading stations in Canterbury may be useful to flookownera :—l.: — 1. Shearing to oommence eaoh working day at sunrise, and end half an hour be* fore sunset. 2. Meal times from eight to 9 a m for breakfast- j and from one to two p m for dinner. Morning smoke half an hour, from quarter to till a quarter past cloven. Afternoon smoke for twenty minutes, from four till twenty minutes past four o'clock. No sheep to be caught after the bell sounds for meals or rest. 3. No man to shear more than 100 sheep per day. 4. Every sheep to bo shorn closely and cleanly, and the fleece taken off whole. " Tomahawking" will in no case be allowed, neither will clipping or ohopping be tolerated ; the wool xmst be taken off at first blow. Every breach of this rule will subject the shearer to a fine or deduction of a score of sheep from hit tally. 5. All sheep to be care* fully handled. Any shearer illtreating • sheep by kneeling upon, kicking, compressing the nostrils, violently wrenching the neck, or other* wise illusing the animal or in the habit of making cuts and gashes, will bo discharged ; and no money shall be paid to such shearer until the termination of the shearing, 6, Any shearer guilty of drunkenness, using obscene or abusive language, or being absent from work without permission, will be fined in suras varying from 5a to 20i, at the option of the Superintendent. Any man found bringing grog to the station will be discharged.

Pukekura.— Messrs Edwin B Walker and John Fisher are gazetted fenx«"7io¥Tere for the Highway District of Piikekura,