The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1875-02-09 00:00:00

Contop_imbma.

ON THE RATING OF GAME OR SPORTING
RIGHTS.
To iho Editor.
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LABOURERS AN b THEM EMPLOYERS.
Tu Ow Editor.

Allow me through the medium of your valuaLle paper
to lay before your readers, especially that porta a of time
Whom it particularly concerns, the following sugges-
tions.
As during the perhslo before Michaelmax-day, and more
generally old lAdy-day, it has been a log established
usage and custom tor yearly engagement."( semi°e v, be
made, Wirt because very earnest probetations have been
made IlRaillnt such agreements of service even to the doing
away with them altozeth,r, it has been found that (Par.
thallarly for two years post). • very unsettled state of
affairs has sprung up, to the very great inconvenience and
loss of all classes of persons. It seems desirable that for
the sake of present convenience at lea.st, some general
arrangement and adjustment should be come to, and how
esp. it 1.8 lone without agreements?
. . . . . .

Having in my murales through Donetshire and neigh-
bouring counties found out the average of wages pail, I
give the following standard as touching hell labourers:—
April to September, 30s. fortnightly per man; October to
March, 245. ditto ; cottage* in rent deductions from Is. Dd.
to Its. weekly, according to iii.. Shepherds and carters
Is. 61 weekly additional, with such particular extras for
the seasone of loathing and harvest as is the custom of
the neighbourhood. either of Dai. or AS. extra in
or by Lap net payment at end of the year, being for every
week of service during the year Is.. If the whole Year 01
service be rendered. payment being mode only in the
period when there is ability to work, apart from sickness,
de.
I cannot see any reason for delay, or possible advantage
In not entering upon an agreement from year to year (or
six tied of course this scale may be varied and
altered &ceonling hi the supply and demand. and if written
and aigunt copies of such agreement, lie held on either
side, it would I think restore peace to many establishments
where at present, anti for wine time past, neither master
nor man has known which course to take.
have not written these hints in the ',articular favonr
of either on., side or the other, but with is sympathy for
each, and in a desire to crc fairmos, where it had been
perhaps is difficulty to come to a ...inclusion.
I earnestly hope that parties haring such contracts to
make will keep clear of all i.iiita wherein they Anse no
rift) to tic-pasii-o,irher as to the reltuoti• Preferences
cnost, sir with social matters of any other inert
A rontraa of nervire is a contract of rervire and nothing
mor, and when sve look at tlie example* of the earliest
311.1 fuel that rovenanta of tlibi sort wen, fa&d,, cm in
thecae., of I )1.1 Shepherd Jo.visli), it appears t.i me that to
primed to this pay is right and proper; and where any
given stanilant tits not, let the particii arrange for then..
selves, If I lie is inabler I think it no business of loins
aka my porkpie,' join lIIPIUSeiVCA bl while they honestly
fulfil their c ,strntw ith sue; or if I be a servant I mu-
stier that 1. hcn liiive whit I have 144nd:teed for,
then, is an end of It; and if Id.. nut know how to linJte
an agreeing:tit it is quite time to leant the way.
Camasaroxima.
February 2, IhLi.