PRESSURE AT WORKS

Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 29067, 2 December 1959, Page 16

PRESSURE AT WORKS

Saturday Killing Likely

With the country drying up under the hot winds of the last few days and lambs coming rapidly to the killing stage, freezing works in North Canterbury and Mid-Canterbury are now coming under great pressure to kill stock. It is likely as a result that there will be a half-day’s kill at most works on Saturday. The general manager of the Canterbury Frozen Meat Company (Mr R. D. Iles), said last evening that arrangements had been made for a half-day's kill on Saturday morning at the company’s works at Belfast, Fairfield and Pareroa. The works manager at the New Zealand Refrigerating Company’s Islington works, Mr J. Gundersen, said that the stock position demanded that there should be killing and there was every probability that there would be killing at Islington on Saturday. The general manager of the North Canterbury Sheepfarmers’ works at Kaiapoi, Mr W. D. Douglas, Said that his works also expected to be killing on Saturday, and a spokesman for Thomas Borthwick and Sons (Australasia), Ltd., said it was also hoped that there would be killing at the company’s Belfast works. Because of the killing pressure arrangements are also being made to move stock out of Canterbury for killing as was done in last year’s drought. The Canterbury Frozen Meat Company is planning to send stock from Mid-Canter-bury to Southland next week. If present conditions continue works will also' be wanting to kill between Christmas and New Year, probably on two days. Mr Iles said last evening that even if there was a change in conditions this might still be necessary.

“I do not think that killing is so urgent this year as far as drought is concerned,” he said, “but it is just as necessary because of the forward condition of stock.”