The Australasian pastoralists' review : a monthly journal and record of all matters affecting the pastoral and landed interests throughout Australasia

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NL 338.1 PAS
Created/Published
Melbourne : Twopenny, Pearce and Co., 1891-1901
Issue
Vol. 3 No. 12 (15 February 1894)
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Notes
Index appears at the beginning of the March issue
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Contents

THE AUSTRALASIAN PASTORALISTS' REVIEW 1
NOTICE. 1
Editorial Notes. 1 , 2 , 3 , 4
Rainfall Tables—January, 1894. 4
Review of Pastoral Situation. New South Wales. 5 , 6
Victoria. 6 , 7
Queensland. 7 , 8
South Australia. 8 , 9 , 10
Western Australia. 10
Tasmania. 10 , 11
New Zealand. 11 , 12 , 13
Death of Mr. Lachlan MeBean. 13
The Wool Trade 14 , 15
Our London Wool Letter. 15 , 16
New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company’s Annual Report. 16
Aews Jottings. 17 , 18
Advertising 19 , 20
The Trustees and Treasurer of the Pastoralists’ Union of New South Wales. 21
Our Book-Shelf in the Bush. 22
Advertising 22 , 23 , 24 , 25
Australasian Pastoralists' Review The Frozen Meat Trade and the State. 25 , 26
New South Wales Central Division Leases. 26 , 27
Wholesale Meat Buyers and Diseased Cattle. 27 , 28
Romney Marsh Sheep. 28 , 29
The Romney Marsh Sheep. 29
Another View of Argentina. 29 , 30
Algerian Sheep. 30
Boring Notes. 30
Government Bores in Progress in N.S.W. 30
Stock and Station Botes. 31 , 32
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR. 33
Dehorning’ and Breeding’ the Horns Off. 33
Footrot. 33
A Hard Case. 33 , 34
Wet Sheep. 34
The Fluke Question. 34
Working Sheep with Dog's. 34
Bimetallism. 34
The Frozen Meat Trade. Our London Letter. 35 , 36 , 37
W. Weddel and Co.’s “Annual Review.” 37 , 38 , 39
The Victorian Minister for Lands on the New Zealand Trade. 39 , 40
Meeting in Sydney. 40 , 41
Items. 41
Labour Union Notes. 42 , 43 , 44
Intercolonial Shearers’ Conference.—The Pastoralists’ Union to he Ignored. 45 , 46
Record. MONTHLY REPORTS. The Pastoralists’ Union of New South Wales. 47
United Pastoralists’ Association of Queensland. 47
{publishers’ Department. 47
Ploughing Season. 47 , 48
Stock Mortgages in Victoria. 48
The Doondi Case. 48
Advertising 48 , 49

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THE  

AUSTRALASIAN PASTORALISTS' REVIEW  

MONTHLY JOURNAL AND RECORD  

Of all matters affecting the Pastoral and Landed Interests throughout Australasia.  

No. 12.  

SYDNEY AND MELBOURNE, FEBRUARY 15, 1894.  

Vol. 111.  

NOTICE.  

The “ Australasian Pastoralists’ Review ” has been established at  

the instance, and xvith the official support of the Federated Pastoralists’  

Unions of New South Wales, Victoria, United Queensland, and South  

Australia, for the defence of their common interests and the pro-  

motion of the pastoral indxistry.  

SUBSCRIPTIONS.  

The terms of subscription are One Pound Sterling per annum,  

payable in advance. All orders should be addressed to the Manager,  

either at 63 Pitt-street, Sydney, or 475 Gollins-street, Melbourne.  

LONDON AGENCY.  

Mr. J. T. Critchell, 31 Fleet-street, has \been appointed special  

representative of this Review for Great Britain, and is authorised to  

receive subscriptions and advertisements.  

Editorial Notes.  

We have pleasure in informing our readers that we have secured  

the services of competent correspondent in London to send us  

monthly letter upon the latest aspects of the frozen meat trade.  

His introductory letter, which gathers up the threads of the course  

of the trade during the last three months, appears in the “ Frozen  

Meat Trade” columns of the present issue.  

 

 

Another article to which we wish to draw special attention this  

month is the report of an interview which our New Zealand  

correspondent has had with one of the most experienced breeders  

of Romney Marsh sheep in that colony, who had previously had  

Kentish experience of this breed. “ Another view of Argentine”  

will also be found of interest by readers of our review of Mr. Gib-  

son’s book.  

 

From the extracts from the official report of the proceedings at  

the Shearers’ Annual Conference, published in another column, it  

will be seen that Messrs. Spence and Co. have declared war against  

the Pastoralists’ Union of New South Wales in connection with  

what is known as “ the reference system.” We use the phrase  

“ Messrs. Spence and Co.” in no disrespectful sense, but because we  

are convinced that this is the work of the leaders of the union, and  

that the system is not generally objected to by the workers. And  

because it is the work of the leaders it is not surprising that such  

incorrect statements with reference to the system should be made.  

We find, even in the secretary’s report, statement implying that  

the “reference” is “signed, sealed, and delivered by the secretary  

of the Pastoralists’ Union.” This statement will astonish our  

readers, most of whom use the discharge certificate, wrongly  

termed “ reference,” for, as they know, the certificate bears no  

reference to the Pastoralists’ Union, and is not signed by any one  

but the employer and the employe. But the public must be roused  

in this matter if the system is to be fought, and for that purpose  

Messrs. Spence and Co. are evidently determined to resort to their  

old tactics of misrepresentation.  

♦  

 

Mr, Spence has publicly stated through the columns of the  

Sydney Daily Telegraph: —(l) That the pastoralists demand that all  

engage through their Sydney office (2) that the men are then sent  

wherever the manager of the office thinks fit; (3) that man when  

accepting employment does not know where he is going to; (4) that  

these references are quite new idea. All these statements, besides  

many more made by Mr. Spence on the same occasion, are  

absolutely untrue. The system of giving and accepting references  

has been in vogue almost any number of years. The Pastoralists’  

Union only engages men for those of its members who prefer to  

engage through its offices. The applicants generally specify the  

shed at which they desire to obtain shearing work, and, unless the  

board is full, they are sent to that shed upon producing satis-  

factory references as to competency. In other cases, where the  

applicants do not ask for work at particular shed, the pens are  

allotted months before shearing begins, and applicants are imme-  

diately advised. But we have not space to follow Mr. Spence  

through all his contemptible misrepresentations—contemptible  

because these reiterated charges have been publicly refuted in  

the daily newspapers more than once, and Mr. Spence must,  

therefore, have been aware that the statements he was making  

were untrue. The fact is, the shearers have determined that there  

must be shearing row next season, the time being opportune  

because, in the words of Mr. Arthur Eae, “ the banks were now in  

bad position, combined with the general elections looming in the  

near future,” and in their opinion the reference system is the best  

casus belli they can find—if they can only misrepresent it suffi-  

ciently to deceive their own members and the general public.  

 

 

What is known as the Doondi shearing case is by far the most  

important shearing action that has yet taken place since the Sydney  

conference agreement became the recognised form of agreement of  

the organised pastoralists and the organised shearers. The points  

at issue were, primarily, the determination of the point as to who  

shall decide in cases of dispute between the employers and their  

workmen as to whether sheep are too wet to be shorn, and, secondly,  

to what extent are the powers of the employer delegated to his  

overseers. In previous cases before the courts, the decision on the  

first point has been arrived at entirely upon the evidence adduced  

—as it was in the case under notice—and, generally, the decision  

has been in favour of the shearers, the evidence naturally  

preponderating on their side. Where, however, as in the Brung  

Brungle (Victoria), Tabratong and Cassilis (New South Wales)  

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