FREEZING DISPUTE.
POSITION AT LONGBUItN. The Longburn freezing works tomorrow morning will commence killing operations with union labour iu addition to the volunteers who have been “carrying on.” A “Standard” reporter was informed to-day that the butchers will comprise nine old union employees and some 14 or 15 of the volunteer men, it being intended to retain the services of the latter throughout the season although now that the strike is over there is no lack of labour in any department of the works. Longburn will not operate at capacity to-morrow and a full “board” of slaughtermen will not be required for some little time. END OF THE STRIKE. WELCOME NEWS IN HAWKE’S BAY. Nowhere, probably, in the Dominion was the end ol : the strike such welcome news as to the slieeptarmers of Hawke’s Bay. That province is experiencing its second successive drought and so acute was the position becoming that to hold stock longer on the parched pastures —especially in the coastal regions —at a time when ordinarily large drafts were sent to the freezing worms, meant threatened disaster. As it is, a very large number of Hawke’s Bay pastoralists are bound to find ihemseives in financial difficulties after two lean years made.so by scanty rainfall and a lower all round range of prices. While the country about \Vaipukurau is not yet suffering so greatly irom heat and low rainfall, that back of Hastings is in places very bare, while pans of tlfe coastal belts have practically been ‘ - bone dry” throughout tiie winter.
A visitor to Hawke’s Bay cites as an instance of the effect of the winter’s drought that one farmer alone, on a 600 acre holding, lost 30 cattle through shortage of feed. Sheep withstand dry conditions much better and generally are looking well although beginning to feel the puich of the dry at this the outset of the summer season
A feature of the freezing works strike in Hawke’s Bay was the manner in which the sons of farmers, even of the wealthiest landowners in the province, enthusiastically rushed positions on the • killing board. Their efforts, if in many cases at first a little crude, rapidly improved under the supervision of experts although not a few returned home after a few days with various cuts which incapacitated them for a period. Nevertheless, there was a determination to “see the thing through.” The end of the strike was indeed welcome news to the many who feared the result of having to hold surplus stock much longer on the fast drying hill country. WAINGAWA WORKS. UNIONISTS COMMENCE. Per Press Association. MASTERTON, Dec. 5. Twenty-three unionist slaughtermen commenced at the Waingawa freezing works on Saturday morning, and volunteer butchers who wished to continue were kept on. A corresponding number of labouring hands also reported for work. The management report that everything is back to normal.
POSITION AT GISBORNE. MANY UNIONISTS OFFERING. VOLUNTEER WORKERS STAY ON. Per Press Association. GISBORNE Dec. 6. Members of the Freezers’ Union decided to accept employment and a big number of men applied at both works this morning. Only a small number of these were required as many volunteer workers had elected to remain for the season and, having applied for membership of the union, they were kept on. Only 25 out of 70, applicants got positions at the Kaiti works
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVII, Issue 7, 6 December 1926, Page 7
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556FREEZING DISPUTE. Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVII, Issue 7, 6 December 1926, Page 7
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