NEW MEAT WORKS

Evening Post, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 54, 5 March 1914, Page 8

NEW MEAT WORKS

(IT TELEGRAPH.— PRESS ASSOCIATION.) OAMAE-U, This Day. The official opening of the Chri6tchurch Meat Company's new works at Pukeuri took place to-day. A luncheon, at which representatives of the public bodies and business and faxming communities to the total number of several hundreds' were the guests of the directors, was held to celebrate the occasion. The visitors included the Hon. VV. Fraser, Minister for Public Works. The nev\- works arc capacious, with 90.000 feet floor spare, ajid will bo abl© to handle up to 3000 lambs daily. They have been built to suit the latest methods of treating meat, for export, and •will be a big factor in the industrial life of the district.

The Hutt Licensing Bench met at Lower Hutt yesterday. «hen the following in embers were present : Messrs. Cudby (iu.ting-ehairraan). Welch, Ryder, and Cotton. The only husine.<« ivas an application for the tiansler of the license of the (> rand National Hotel from Alexandra Johnson to Arthur Albeit Richaidpon, ThU was giantod. Ml 1 . S. George Nathan offered for wile by public uuclion yottei-day afternoon, under instructions froiti the Regis) rur of I he Sup i« me (Jourt, the following properlies: — Lol 1, la 3r 7.3p, Derwenl- -street, Isliind Bay, which was bought in by tho mortgagee ut £750 j lot 2, 2a- 2r 6.8p, on Makara-road, Karori, was knocked down lo Mr. Oco. Read at £65; lot 3, 22.2 p. lot 14. Moriutig-lon Estate, was sold to Mr.. Geo. Read for £27 10s; Jot 4, cix sections, Brooklyn, which were bought in by the mortgagee for £600 ; lot 5, 3n 2r 20p, between Day's Bay and Rona Boy, to Mr, Creo. Bead far J3SS,