ABATTOIRS AND SALEYARDS.

Press, Volume LV, Issue 10042, 21 May 1898, Page 5

ABATTOIRS AND SALEYARDS.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE PRESS. Sir, —I beg to assure your correspondent "A.C.W." that I "have- not cnanged my opinions, and that I do not write in the interests of a dozen shareholders whom I do not happen to know. Long before the Midland yards were thought of there was a tendency for the store stock at Aldington to decrease, while the fat stock business has continued to increase, and this would have gone on in any case, for the bulk of store stock are sold at the country saleyarcls. I certainly deprecated the existence of two saleyards near Cliristchurch, and do so still, but this referred to tat stock, and notwithstanding the Midland yards we still have only one fat stock sale—that at Addington. But immediately these yards are closed we shall have two, for while I quite agree with "A.C.W." that Sockburn is a convenient locality for road-travelled store stock, I am very sure that the fat stock from the north will not go there. With the recent cutting up of the Horsley Down estate, and the prospect of the Glenmark estate, and probably portions of others being divided into smaller holdings in the near future, the production of fat stock in the northern districts will largely increase in the next few years, but it will not go south of Christchurch to be sold. In reply to Mr J. R. (Jo.arlton's letter advocating Hornby as a site for the abattoirs, with drainage by percolation into the soil, it would ill become mc to attempt to educate an M.R.C.V.S. as to the disposal of abattoir drainage. I would rather refer him to the residents in the neighbourhood of Hornby.—Yours, &c, Reginald Foster. Cltristchnrch, May 16th, 1898.