FAT LAMB SEASON NOW WELL UNDER WAY AT KAITI

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22817, 11 December 1948, Page 8

FAT LAMB SEASON NOW WELL UNDER WAY AT KAITI

With the fat. lamb season now get- ! ting well under way at the Kaiti trecz- j jng works capacity kilting on the two ! chains of (MOO head are being main- ! tained. Killing was continued today and ! bookings have been taken for next Saturday to cope with the pre-Christmas i

rush. Gisborne lias been placed in the un- j usual, but. fortunate, position this year | of being short of a small percentage of i the seasonal workers usually available for employment at the freezing works, j Permanent employment has claimed some and others have been absorbed in work of an unskilled and temporary nature in the Government housing block. The call at the works is for 15 to 20 men in various departments. The following list of killing weights j will gir o an indication of the manner : in which Hie lambs are killing out this j season: —Mr. P. V. Mitford, Ngatapa, ' 457 woolly 'Downs, no seconds, 37.661 b. 1 average: Mr. 11. E. Cave, Ngatapa, 304 i woolly 'Downs, four seconds, 36.931 b.: Messrs. Duncan Brothers. Makarori._l77 woolly ’Downs, two seconds, 35.051 b.: G. W. Humphreys est.. Waipaoa, 250 woolly ’Downs, two seconds, 35.371 b.: Mrs. E. M. Read, Whangara, 108 woolly ’Downs, two seconds, 37.131 b.: Mr. Rutene Jones, Manutuke. 05 woolly 'Downs, no seconds, 35.731 b.; Mr. D. O'Grady, Makauri. 102 woolly ’Downs, two seconds, 37.431 b.; Mr. A. T. Smith. Patutahi, 675 woolly ’Downs, 19 seconds, 35.401 b.; Mr. G. Delahunty, Oloko, 112 woollv ’Downs, no seconds, 35.661 b.; Mr. J. F. King. 106 woolly Romneys, six seconds, 37.451 b.

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