ABATTOIRS SELLING

Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 35, 10 August 1933, Page 9

ABATTOIRS SELLING

NEW SOUTH WALES PRAISE

A comparison of New Zealand 'a four municipal abattoirs with Sydney's Homebush was made recently by the member for Cootamundra in:the New South Wales Assembly, Mr. W. F. Boss, speaking to Cunningbar farmers. Ho was speaking from the standpoint of the grower of lambs,1 who, he considered, benefits under a system whereby the small butcher can buy at the abattoirs, instead of being pushed out by tho big butcher. "At Homebush," s^id Mr. Boss, "the small buyer had been pushed right out by the big carcass butcher. The small man here is thus forced to buy off the hook instead o£ in the saleyards, as he can do in New Zealand. The four big cities in New Zealand each have municipal abattoirs. At the stock sales the butcher buys what he thinks he requires, and it is not slaughtered till lie needs it. Ho merely hands the stock to the abattoirs, and it is grazed until the buyer notifies the abattoirs that the carcasses are required." Mr. Boss also told his farmer audience: "We have never had an opportunity of having our lambs treated in the way they are treated in New Zealand." After seeing the "chain" system in operation in the meat works in New Zealand, he was convinced that it was far ahead of the "solo' J system used hero. One advantage of the "chainV system was that the skins came off practically square, and when they were sold to the fellmonger there was a gain of 8 inches in comparison with what was received after they were treated by the system in operation at Homebush. This was a big gain to the producer. Tho slaughtermen got tho advantage of having no stooping to do. They worked shoulder-high, which was tho natural position, and much easier for them. "I do not think we will ever get genuine competition 'at Homebush again," concluded Mr. Boss, "until wo use the system of selling that is used in New Zealand."