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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVIII, Issue 2740, 19 February 1910, Page 2

The question of stook threshing which lias been the subject of lengthy disputes lately, arose at the hearing of the North Canterbury threshing mills dispute. A farmer from the Ashburton district, who was watching the proceedings, told a reporter that practical experience showed that there was little ground for the contention that mill-hands cannot make such good wages when the grain was threshed from the stook. The farmer employed men to cart the grain to the mill, and there was no reason why the mill-hands should not be kept at work as steadily as when working at the stack. He said that on 24th -January a mill threshed 2347 A bushels of oats from the stoolc in ten hours/ and each hand earned 23s Gd. One of the employers’ assesors, Mr. T. Burgin, said that n would be a. most serious thing if stook threshing were stopped. Since the commencement of the season between a quarter of a million and half a million bushels had been threshed by mills between Ashburton and Culverden, and the farmers and those engaged in threshing would have suffered a serious loss, in view of the heavy rains that had fallen lately, bad the farmers been forced to stack the grain that had been threshed from the stook. In eleven hours a mill at his farm had threshed 1297 bushels of wheat and oats from the stoqk, and the men had earned between 13s and 14s each. Been reading by a poor light and got a headache? Never mind —(Stearns’ Headache Cure drives away the pain in a few minutes —leaves your head clear. Twenty million peorplo use it. Is a box.