OPERATIONS OF AUCKLAND WORKS.

Press, Volume LI, Issue 15220, 6 March 1915, Page 7

OPERATIONS OF AUCKLAND WORKS.

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AUCKLAND, March 5

Slaughtering operations will be resumed at the' Southdown Works of the Auckland Farmers' Freezing Company on Tuesday. During next week two whole days and two half days will be worked. All the men engaged in the slaughtering operations were paid off when work was suspended on Thursday. They will lie taken on again on Tuesday morning, and paid off again on Friday. Whole days will be worked on Tuesday and Thursday, and half days on Wednesday and Friday. In the four day s about 9000 head of" .stock will be dealt with, and the space in the storage relieved by the loading of the Matatua will again be filled. Operations will then have to be suspended until the arrival of another steamer later in the month.

A Timaru telegram states that account sales of a mob of 300 lambs put through the local works show- that at the Government prices for the different grades, with values or skins, wool, and pelts added at current rates, and deducting killing, freezing, and shipping charges of _d per lb, lambs averaging 33.6 lb netted an average of 19s lid per head, or 6 4-sth d per lb.