KILLING LULL AT WORKS

Press, Volume CII, Issue 30045, 1 February 1963, Page 8

KILLING LULL AT WORKS

“Still Lot Of Lambs About”

Because lambs and cull ewes are not coming forward from farmers, some freezing works in Canterbury will not kill every week day for a period. No killing will be done at the Belfast works of Thomas Borthwick and Son (Australasia), Ltd., today. Killing will resume on Monday.

The Belfast works of the Canterbury Frozen Meat Company will kill up to about 3 p.m. today after four full days’ killing this week. Present intentions are that there will be no killing at the works on Monday. There have been some partdays at the company’s Fairfield works. The Pareora works had full days’ killings up to yesterday, but there may not be a full day’s killing today. The New Zealand Refrigerating Company's Islington works have had a few short days’ killing, said the general manager of the company (Mr W. M. Cleland), yesterday.

“It is a seasonal lull in killing,” he said. “The lull has come earlier than expected. There are still a lot of lambs about. They will come in when they are fattened on feed. The cull ewes will then be coming in.”

“If people only made prudent marriages, what a stop to population there would be!”—Thackeray.