The plans? for the Lyttelton public abattoirs, which have been prepared by IMr •J. C. Maddisou, show the proposed building to be a parellelogram about 60 feet by 46 feet with pithing pen for bullocks at one end and cooling room (30 feet by 25 feet] at the other.; The slaughterhouse proper is j 50 feet by 22 feet; on [one side three sheep- j killing pens and one pig-killing pen are j placed, and on the other side is the gut j and otl'al house, with shoots, and also the ; skin room. Adjacent to these is the boiler j house. The animals will first be put into 1 drafting pons, and from thence into the killing pens. They will be killed and . dres~‘ d in the slaughterhouse, the carcases j being conveyed on a overhead railway into a cooling room, and then removed as \ required by the butchers [to their places j of business, I
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Gisborne Times, Volume VI, Issue 231, 8 October 1901, Page 4
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