MEAT WORKS DISPUTE.

Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 7, 9 January 1926, Page 10

MEAT WORKS DISPUTE.

SLAUGHTERMEN GO SLOW. ONLY HALF NORMAL RATE. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, Friday. The secretary of the South Island Freezing Companies Association said today that killings at the works in Canterbury were normal until noon, but were reduced to half the normal rate in the afternoon without notice. If this continued the works would handle smaller quantities. This is bad news for the farmers, who after the dry summer are anxious to quit their fat stock. At the Methven stock sale yesterday there was a state of affairs similar to tbat at Hawarden. Many lines were passed, and some owners, hearing of the decision of exporters not to buy, turned their flocks back for home before reaching the yards. EALING SALE ABANDONED. (By Telegraph.—rress Association.) ASHBURTON, Friday. The Ealing stock sale was abandoned yesterday as the freezing buyers would not buy at per head. An offer to buy at per lb if the vendors would keep the sheep until the works would accept them was not acceptable to the producers. Union officials at the Fairfield works deny tl|at* any threat of a strike has been made. They declined to state what steps would be taken to obtain increased pay.