40 THE SHEEP AND WOOL INDUSTRY 



such as tick, the maggot fly, etc. The dip is usually put up in 

 powder form, a quantity of water being added according to 

 the directions which the makers supply. Dipping improves the 

 wool and has a beneficial effect on the sheep also. It is now 

 made compulsory by law for Victorian sheep-breeders to dip 

 their flocks once in twelve months. 



SHEARER'S AGREEMENT. NOT FOUND. 



In accordance with the award of the Commonwealth Court of Conciliation and 

 Arbitration, dated 2;th October, 1911. 



made the Twelfth day of October, 1913, between Robert Hill 

 (hereinafter called the " employer ") and John Brown of Melbourne (hereinafter 

 called the " employee ") : 



1. The employee will shear with all reasonable despatch and in a good and >>s 

 workmanlike manner all the sheep belonging to Glcnisla station which the '%'% 

 employer shall require him to shear at the shearing beginning on the Twenty- "^g 

 first day of October, 1913. 



2. The total number of sheep to be shorn at the shearing will not be less than E g g 

 20,000, and not more than 30,000. 



3. The employer will be ready to commence shearing on the Twenty-first day 

 of October, 1913, and the employee will be at the station ready to begin shearing 

 by that date, and the employer will keep the employee fully supplied with 

 sheep till the completion of the shearing, unless prevented by any unforeseen 

 cause or causes. But the employer need not pen sheep for shearing which, in 

 his honest opinion, are too wet for shearing. 



4. The SHEARERS 



will provide their own cook and rations or will provide their own rations in i f c 



a joint mess. | g| 



If a joint mess ^2"c 



The employees at the shearing not "found " are to have a joint mess with ~ * 



those "found." 



A cook will be provided by the members of the joint mess and (subject to '^f.-S 

 clause ii of the award) the employer will pay him at the same rate per ^ If 

 head for the members to be " found" by him as those not to be "found " "oS 

 by him agree to pay to the cook for them -elves ; and the rations provided 

 by the employer for employees to be found by him will be on the same scale 

 as to quality and quantity as the rations provided for those not to be 

 so found. 



If a cook be not provided (and ready at hand to act as cook) by the members 

 of the mess before the hour fixed for the shearing to begin, the employer 

 may (as agent for the members of the joint mess) appoint a cook (fixing 

 the rate per head) to act (at the option of the employer) either during the 

 shearing or until the members of the mess provide a cook. 



