GREAT INCREASES.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 51, Issue 134, 19 March 1931, Page 2

GREAT INCREASES.

THE FREEZING INDUSTRY. NORTH ANT) SOUTH ISLANDS. (Special to “The Guardian.”) CHRISTCHURCH, March- 18. Substantial increases are again shown in the killings in. both the North and South Islands for the period from October 1, until February 28. The aggregate increase in the number of sheep and lambs killed in spite of the adverse conditions was 884,749. Mr H C. Revell, secretary of the Canterbury Freezing Workers’ and Slaughtermen’s Union', who supplied the figures, was unable to account for the increase. The increase in the North Island is made up as follows: Wethers 83,01 b, ewes 48,813, lambs 379.076. in the South island the increase lias been entirely in lambs, of which . r >98,807 more than last year have passed through the slaughtermen’s hands. Wethers have fallen oil' by 24,838, and ewes by 07,074. At present the men are working broken time and apparently work in the north is also easing off for there has 'been recently a big influx of slaughtermen from the North Island in search of work.,Most of them have been disappointed as there Ims been a surplus of men this year. It was not possible to forecast the amount of work which would be offering here from now oil, but Air Revell stated that under ordinary conditions there should be another two months’ work. There bad been a better tone about Smith field market this year, he said, and! with normal conditions the killings in New Zealand would have been much larger.