SHORT SUPPLIES
EAST COAST FREEZING
The present freezing season threatens to be something like the last, with very small killings of both, lamb and sheep. At the Kaiti freezing works, Gisborne, states the "Herald's" Gisborne correspondent, a promising start was made, and for a while tallies were above those for the corresponding period of-last year,-but during the past few weeks the numbers of fat stock available have fallen-off, with the result that the works closed down at Christmas with approximately the same total as at Christmas last year.
Up to-the present only about 90,000 lambs and 2000 sheep have been slaughtered at Kaiti. Usually the figures are greatly in excess of this. Frequent rain in the back country during the past few weeks has retarded fattening, but the present weather is more favourable and should assist greatly in making lambs ready for freezing. . The weights of the lambs received have been fairly light, very few at present going above 361b, but quality has not been uniform.
Cattle have not started to come forward yet, and only one small line has been dealt with. Pigs continue in large numbers.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 153, 26 December 1936, Page 14
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188SHORT SUPPLIES Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 153, 26 December 1936, Page 14
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