CITY ABATTOIRS.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXIII, Issue 17, 21 January 1902, Page 3

CITY ABATTOIRS.

[_ special meeting' of' the Auckland City Council was held last evening in order to consider the question of site for the new city abattoirs. His Worship the Mayor (Mr A. Kidd) presided. A large number of butchers were present by invitation. Mr John MeLeod moved that the Oakleigh Park site be selected. Councillor Hannan thought the Council could not do better than decide upon Oakleigh Park, though he thought they should not give more than one-half the price now asked for it. He advocated taking the land under the Public Works Act. The Mayor thought before the Council made any choice they should hear what the master butchers had to say concerning the various sites. Mr Knight said the master butchers were labouring under a disadvantage, inasmuch as the}' were ask-, ed to express an opinion upon sites of some of whi -h they had no knowledge. At a meeting held that afternoon it was resolved to ask the Council to adjourn to submit the various sites to the master butchers for their consideration. Cr. Julian suggested that the matter be deferred for a future meeting, in order to give the butchers time to report. Cr. Parr said that as the Council was opposed to most, of the sites, it would be only wasting the time of the butchers 4-o ask them to visit all the sites. He thought the sites should be reduced fo three, and the butchers asked to visit them and report to tlie Councb by Thursday evening. He said the people o" his ward (Ponsonby) were certainly very strongly opposed to any site in the vicinity of their boundaries, so that any site in that locality would not be accepted. Cr. Julian's motion that the meeting adjourn for a fortn'gi._ to enable the butchers to visit and report on the sites was lost. After some further discussion it. was resolved fo reduce the eligible sites to four, viz., Oakeligh Park (Avondale), Pah-burn's Estate (Otahuhu), Mays' place and Klondike (between Mt. Roskill and Blockhouse Bay), and to ask the Master Butchers' Association to visit these sites and report to the City Council bj- Thursday evening next.