A Documentary History of Australia: Colonial Australia, 1875-1900Nelson, 1980 - Australia |
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... sheep depended mainly on the skill of the shearers ; so too did the profits of the squatter . In the 1860s and 1870s all sorts of ideas were in circulation about the replacement of hand shearing , but it was a long time before a ...
... sheep depended mainly on the skill of the shearers ; so too did the profits of the squatter . In the 1860s and 1870s all sorts of ideas were in circulation about the replacement of hand shearing , but it was a long time before a ...
Page 323
... sheep station for the purpose . They are put to such work as skinning sheep that have died from disease or exhaustion , ring barking trees , or any other drudgery that will keep them going from before daylight till after dark . In the ...
... sheep station for the purpose . They are put to such work as skinning sheep that have died from disease or exhaustion , ring barking trees , or any other drudgery that will keep them going from before daylight till after dark . In the ...
Page 330
... sheep are properly shorn , not as to shearing wet sheep . Surely there is nothing in our agreement or in the law of the land which would enable any employer to forfeit as penalty any unpaid portion of his employees ' wages for any ...
... sheep are properly shorn , not as to shearing wet sheep . Surely there is nothing in our agreement or in the law of the land which would enable any employer to forfeit as penalty any unpaid portion of his employees ' wages for any ...
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